= Blackwell N.G., Ahhiyawa, Hatti, and Diplomacy: Implications of Hittite Misperceptions of the Mycenaean World, in: Hesperia 90/2 191-231. [Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.90.2.0191. (Abstract: This article considers formal diplomatic relations between the Mycenaeans
and Hittites through analysis of the Hittite Tawagalawa Letter. Consensus
attributes that tablet’s authorship to Hattušili III (ca. 1267–1237 b.c.), who
complained to the king of Ahhiyawa about a Hittite renegade named Piyamaradu.
The historical context of Hattušili’s foreign policy, particularly his
Treaty of Kadesh with the Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II, supports a revised
understanding of his correspondence with Ahhiyawa. The Tawagalawa Letter
alludes to an existing nonaggression pact between Hatti and Ahhiyawa modeled
after the well-known Hittite-Egyptian contract. This new idea reconciles
the discrepancy between a unified Ahhiyawa and a politically fragmented
Mycenaean world. Such diplomacy can also account for technological similarities that exist between Mycenae and Hattuša)] Neue Abfrage | New Search
