The Kingdom of Kizzuwatna: Recent Developments in Research

These proceedings, from the Third NINO Postdoctoral Research Fellow Annual Conference, held in Leiden in March 2023, collect twelve contributions on a wide array of topics related to the kingdom of Kizzuwatna, a local polity in southern Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600–1200 BCE).

The volume brings together multiple disciplinary perspectives, including archaeology, material culture studies, philology, and historical linguistics. Following a historical introduction to the kingdom of Kizzuwatna (Section I), the contributions are organized into four thematic sections: Archaeology and Geography (II), Texts, Philology, and Language (III), Religion, Rituals, and Culture (IV), and Kingship and Ideology (V).

The aim of the volume is to offer an updated view of the kingdom of Kizzuwatna, reflecting recent research developments, discoveries, and interpretations from a range of scholarly perspectives.

This book is published in open access; download it from the Peeters Publishers website.

Table of Contents

Kizzuwatna: History, sources and research questions
Andrea Trameri

The archaeology of Kizzuwatna: Data, research, questions
Mirko Novák and Ekin Kozal (with a contribution by Gabriele Elsen-Novák)

Places and spaces of Kizzuwatna
Adam Kryszeń

The region of Kizzuwatna viewed from Egypt: The attestations(?) of Kizzuwatna and its area in the Egyptian documentation
Marco De Pietri

“Into the mountains and down to the sea”
Eva von Dassow

The tradition and recensions of the itkalzi-ritual
Stefano De Martino

Hurrian(s) in Kizzuwatna: An old topos reconsidered
Zsolt Simon

What do we know about ‘Kizzuwatnaean’ religion?
Manfred Hutter

Interacting with the dead in Kizzuwatna
Alice Mouton

From Kizzuwatna to Ḫattuša: How gods were adopted into the Hittite state cult
Livio Warbinek

The possible impact of the annexation of Kizzuwatna in the involvement of Hittite queens in the administration of the Hittite kingdom
Sylvia Hutter-Braunsar

Mechanisms of Kizzuwatnaean influence on Hittite royal ideology in the Empire Period
Piotr Taracha