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Telipinu was the last king of the Hittites Old Kingdom, reigning c. 1525–1500 BC in middle chronology. [2] At the beginning of his reign, the Hittite Empire had contracted to its core territories, having long since lost all of its conquests, made in the former era under Hattusili I and Mursili I – to Arzawa in the West, Mitanni in the East, the Kaskians in the North, and Kizzuwatna in the ...
Tudḫaliya IV of the New Kingdom, r. c. 1245–1215 BC. [1]The dating and sequence of Hittite kings is compiled by scholars from fragmentary records, supplemented by the finds in Ḫattuša and other administrative centers of cuneiform tablets and more than 3,500 seal impressions providing the names, titles, and sometimes ancestry of Hittite kings and officials.
The early history of the Hittite kingdom is known through four "cushion-shaped" tablets, (classified as KBo 3.22, KBo 17.21+, KBo 22.1, and KBo 22.2), not made in Ḫattuša, but probably created in Kussara, Nēša, or another site in Anatolia, that may first have been written in the 18th century BC, [46] [4] in Old Hittite language, and three ...
He was also invoked formulaically in a daily prayer for King Muršili II during the latter's reign. [1] An ancient Hittite myth about Telipinu, the Telipinu Myth, describes how his disappearance causes all fertility to fail, both plant and animal: Mist seized the windows. Smoke seized the house. On the hearth the logs were stifled.
Telipinu (or Telepinu) Proclamation is a Hittite edict, written during the reign of King Telipinu, c. 1525-1500 BCE. [1] The text is classified as CTH 19 in the Catalogue of Hittite Texts . The edict is significant because it made possible to reconstruct a succession of Hittite Kings.
According to the Telepinu Proclamation, Hantili was the royal cup-bearer to Mursili I, king of the Hittites. Hantili was married to Ḫarapšili, Mursili's sister. [3] Around the year 1590 B.C., Hantili, with the help of Zidanta, his son-in-law, assassinated Mursili. Afterwards, Hantili succeeded him as king of the Hittites. [4]
Huzziya I was a king of the Hittites (Old Kingdom), ruling for 5 years, ca. 1530–1525 BC (middle chronology) [1] or 1466–1461 BC (short chronology). [ 2 ] Biography
Alluwamna was a king of the Hittites (Middle Kingdom) in the 15th century BC. He might be a successor of Telipinu as his son-in-law, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] after the reign of Tahurwaili . [ 1 ]