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Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age
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LETTERS OF THE GREAT
KINGS OF THE ANCIENT
NEAR EAST
The Royal Correspondence of the Late
Bronze Age
Trevor Bryce
LONDON AND NEW YORK
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First published 2003
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.
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© 2003 Trevor Bryce
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced
or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means,
now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording,
or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in
writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
(Data to follow)
ISBN 0-203-50498-4 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-56985-7 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 041525857X (Print Edition)
CONTENTS
List of illustrations
v
List of abbreviations
vi
Comparative chronology of the Great Kings
ix
Introduction
1
Part I Setting the scene
7
1 The main players: the five Great Kingdoms
8
2 The interaction of the players: imperial administration and
international relationships
38
Part II The letters and their themes
50
3 Letters and messengers
51
4 The club of royal brothers
70
5 Gift-exchanges
89
6 The marriage market
100
7 Sending for the doctor
113
Part III Historical episodes
121
8 The Syrian principalities
123
9 The warlords of Amurru
137
10 Hittite frontier correspondence
161
11 An extraordinary request
178
12 Letter to a Mycenaean king
190
13 The elusive Urhi-Teshub
204
14 Last days
214
iv
Appendix: the Amarna letters
223
Bibliography
228
Index
235

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