الدول الحيثية الجديدة

"Neo-Hittite" redirects here. For the last phase of the Hittite Kingdom, see New Hittite Kingdom. For the language, see New Hittite language.

The Neo-Hittite states (colored) ح. 800 BCE, with the Luwian ones predominantly in the north and the Aramean ones predominantly in the south

The states called Neo-Hittite, Syro-Hittite (in older literature), or Luwian-Aramean (in modern scholarly works) were Luwian and Aramean regional polities of the Iron Age, situated in southeastern parts of modern Turkey and northwestern parts of modern Syria, known in ancient times as lands of Hatti and Aram. They arose following the collapse of the Hittite New Kingdom in the 12th century BCE, and lasted until they were subdued by the Assyrian Empire in the 8th century BCE. They are grouped together by scholars, on the basis of several cultural criteria, that are recognized as similar and mutually shared between both societies, northern (Luwian) and southern (Aramean). Cultural exchange between those societies is seen as a specific regional phenomenon, particularly in light of significant linguistic distinctions between the two main regional languages, with Luwian belonging to the Anatolian group of Indo-European languages and Aramaic belonging to the Northwest Semitic group of Semitic languages. Several questions related to the regional grouping of Luwian and Aramaean states are viewed differently among scholars, including some views that are critical towards such grouping in general.

الاسم

İvriz relief، مع الإله Teshub (on the left) and king Warpalawas (ca 730-710 BCE) (يمين)

One of the most contested issues among scholars within the field is related to the choice of the qualifier for this group of states.

الدولة الحيثية الجديدة

The most commonly used qualifier for these states is Neo-Hittite. It has been criticized because it can mislead readers into thinking these states were ethno-linguistically Hittite, even though the Hittite language is not attested in them.

However, Mirko Novák notes that

the qualifier "Neo-Hittite", culturally connoted, seems however the most suitable here—alongside "Luwo-Aramean", more appropriate from a linguistic point of view—insofar as the sovereigns of these principalities express in their titulature and in the iconography a feeling of identity that attaches itself deliberately to the tradition of the Hittite Empire.

According to Novák,

The term „Neo-Hittite“ reflects on the inherited elements from the Hittite imperial period, such as the iconography of kings and gods in the visual art or the titularity of the kings. This ideological tradition constructed by the “Neo-Hittite” entities effected the Assyrian designation of the Northern Levant as “Land of Ḫatti”.

الدول اللوڤية-الآرامية

Some scholars have been using Luwian-Aramean and variations thereof (e.g. Aramean-Luwian, Luwo-Aramaean, Luwio-Aramean) which are derived from endonymic (native) names for Luwians and Arameans. According to Novák, Luwo-Aramean is more appropriate than Neo-Hittite from a linguistic standpoint, "since Aramaic and Hieroglyphic Luwian were the predominant languages spoken and written." However, quoting Novák,

Factually, both terms “Neo-Hittite” and “Luwo-Aramaean” describe one and the same region and culture.

غيرهم

The labels Syrian-Anatolian or Syro-Anatolian have been criticized for using exonymic (foreign) names, based on the Greek term Anatolia, combined with an anachronistic application of the term Syria, in the sense that was introduced much later, by ancient Greeks, as their designation for Arameans and their land, Aram.

(See also Name of Syria.) Such preference for foreign terms, advocated by some western scholars, is viewed as being culturally biased, and thus insensitive towards native (endonymic) terminology. Anachronistic uses of Syria in modern scholarly literature were additionally challenged after the recent discovery of the bilingual Çineköy inscription from the 8th century BCE, written in the Luwian and Phoenician languages. The inscription contained references to the neighbouring Assyria, inscribed in a specific form that renders as Syria, thus providing additional (and in the same time the oldest) evidence for the dominant scholarly view on the origins and primary meanings of the term Syria, that originated as an apheretic form of the term Assyria, and was redefined much later, by ancient Greeks, who introduced a territorial distinction between two names, and started to use term Syria as a specific designation for western regions (ancient Aram). For ancient Luwians, Syria was designation for Assyria proper, thus revealing the later Greek use of the term Syria as very different from its original meaning, and also anachronistic if used in modern scientific descriptions of historical realities, related to Luwian and Aramean states of the Iron Age.

The qualifier Syro-Hittite has been criticized as well for anachronistically using the prefix Syro-, but also on the grounds that it overemphasizes the "Syrian" (i.e. Aramean) aspect while neglecting the Luwian one.

The term post-Hittite states has also been proposed, although it is by definition too broad, as it can be used and has been used in reference to other Iron Age polities that flourished after the collapse of the Hittite Empire, from the 12th to the 6th century BCE, such as Phrygia or even the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

العصر البرونزي المتأخر – انتقال العصر الحديدي المبكر

للمزيد من المعلومات: انهيار العصر البرونزي

The Hittite New Kingdom and its zone of influence (political and cultural) during the 14th and the 13th centuries BCE

The collapse of the Hittite New Kingdom is usually associated with the gradual decline of Eastern Mediterranean trade networks and the resulting collapse of major Late Bronze Age cities in the Levant, Anatolia and the Aegean. At the beginning of the 12th century BCE, Wilusa (Troy) was destroyed and the Hittite New Kingdom suffered a sudden devastating attack from the Kaskas, who occupied the coasts around the Black Sea, and who joined with the Mysians. They proceeded to destroy almost all Hittite sites but were finally defeated by the Assyrians beyond the southern borders near the Tigris. Hatti, Arzawa (Lydia), Alashiya (Cyprus), Ugarit and Alalakh were destroyed.

Hattusa, the Hittite capital, was completely destroyed. Following this collapse of large cities and the Hittite state, the Early Iron Age in northern Mesopotamia saw a dispersal of settlements and ruralization, with the appearance of large numbers of hamlets, villages, and farmsteads. Syro-Hittite states emerged in the process of such major landscape transformation, in the form of regional states with new political structures and cultural affiliations. David Hawkins was able to trace a dynastic link between the Hittite imperial dynasty and the "Great Kings" and "Country-lords" of Melid and Karkamish of the Early Iron Age, proving an uninterrupted continuity between the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age at those sites.

Aside from literary evidence from inscriptions, the uninterrupted cultural continuity of Post-Hittite states in the region, during the transitional period between the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, is now further confirmed by recent archaeological work at the Temple of the Storm God on the citadel of Aleppo, and Ain Dara temple, where the Late Bronze Age temple buildings continue into the Iron Age without hiatus, with repeated periods of construction in the Early Iron Age.

قائمة الدول الحيثية الجديدة

Various Luwian and Aramean (orange shades) states in the 8th century BCE

The Neo-Hittite states may be divided into two groups: a northern group where Hittite rulers remained in power, and a southern group where Arameans came to rule from about 1000 BCE. These states were highly decentralised structures; some appear to have been only loose confederations of sub-kingdoms.

The northern group includes:

• the Tabalian region, which included:
  • Tabal proper,
  • Tuwana,
  • Atuna,
  • Ḫubišna,
  • Šinuḫtu,
  • Ištuanda;
• Kammanu (with Melid)
• Ḫilakku
• Ḫiyawa (with a stronghold at modern Karatepe)
• Gurgum
• Kummuh
• Carchemish

The southern group includes:

• Palistin (whose capital was probably Tell Tayinat)
• Bit Gabbari (with Sam'al)
• Bit-Adini (with the city of Til Barsip)
• Bit Bahiani (with Guzana)
• Pattin (also Pattina or Unqi) (with the city of Kinalua, maybe modern Tell Tayinat)
• Ain Dara, a religious center
• Bit Agusi (with the cities of Arpad, Nampigi, and (later on) Aleppo)
• Hatarikka-Luhuti (the capital city of which was at Hatarikka)
• Hamath

النقوش

Luwian monumental inscriptions in Anatolian hieroglyphs continue almost uninterrupted from the 13th-century Hittite imperial monuments to the Early Iron Age Syro-Hittite inscriptions of Karkemish, Melid, Aleppo and elsewhere. Luwian hieroglyphs were chosen by many of the Syro-Hittite regional kingdoms for their monumental inscriptions, which often appear in bi- or tri-lingual inscriptions with Aramaic, Phoenician or Akkadian versions. The Early Iron Age in Northern Mesopotamia also saw a gradual spread of alphabetic writing in Aramaic and Phoenician. During the cultural interactions on the Levantine coast of Syro-Palestine and North Syria in the 10th through 8th centuries BCE, Greeks and Phrygians adopted the alphabetic writing from the Phoenicians.

انظر أيضاً

• List of Neo-Hittite kings
• Iron Age Anatolia
• Iron Age Levant
• Euphrates Handmade Syrian Horses and Riders
• Euphrates Syrian Pillar Figurines
• Sakçagözü
• Stele of Zakkur
• Tarḫuntašša

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وصلات خارجية

• Neo-Hittite Monuments