Hittite

How To Use Hittite In A Sentence

• For example, the conquering Hittite King Shuppiluliuma I 1344–1322 B.C. stopped in southeastern Anatolia to review his troops and chariots before continuing onward to his goal, the siege of the city of Carchemish. The Trojan War
• Here were found a number of statues bearing cuniform inscriptions, Hittite inscriptions and two long Aramean inscriptions of the VIII or IX century B.C. M. Helévy, the well-known French Orientalist, was sent by the The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
• kessar is one of the few clearly ablauting nouns in Hittite. I tripped over Pre-IE the other day
• The Hittite word annas 'mother' is apparently an Anatolian innovation. Enticed by a drunken thought
• Puduhepa came from a noble family of high priests in southern Anatolia and went on to play a pivotal role in Hittite religion. The Trojan War
• They had at their disposal a large body of "plunderers," or Beduin from the eastern desert, and Rib-Hadad accuses them of forming secret alliances with the kings of Babylonia, of Mitanni and of the Hittites. Patriarchal Palestine
• Steel of a sort was made by the Hittite smiths, by hammering and heating the iron in contact with charcoal: a process called cementation.
• The only thing that could be said about Hittite writing of fortis-lenis distinction is that in writing it looks like all initial consonants are lenis. Bronze Age Areal influence in Anatolia and Etruscan
• I know that the Yale Law School doesn't just let anyone in (and the only language missing from the frequent quotations at Scott Horton's Harper's blog, as far as I can tell, is Hittite), but what are the chances that this law student being interviewed would a) know the word "catamenial" and b) use it in conversation? Jonathan Goodwin
• The Hittite buildings and rock sculptures of this period testify to the enduring character of the ancient civilization of the "Hatti". Myths of Babylonia and Assyria