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Weeden, Mark (2014) 'State Correspondence in the Hittite World.' In: Radner, Karen, (ed.), State Correspondence in the Ancient World: From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 32-64.

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Abstract

Chapter surveys the corpus of letters between officials and the royal family to throw light on mechanisms of communication and decision-making within the Late Bronze Age Hittite state.

Item Type: Book Chapters
Keywords: State communication, Long-distance communication, Letter, Messenger, Envoy, Anatolia, Hittite Empire, Late Bronze Age, Cuneiform tablet, Wooden writing tablet
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > School of History, Religions & Philosophies > Department of History
Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East
ISBN: 9780199354771
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199354771.003.0003
Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2014 14:43
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/18203

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