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Mitanni (c. 1550–1260 BC),
earlier called Ḫabigalbat in old
Babylonian texts, c. 1600 BC;
Hanigalbat or Hani-Rabbat in ****yrian records, or
Naharin in...
- Some
loanwords in the
variant of the
Hurrian language spoken in
Mitanni during the 2nd
millennium BCE are
identifiable as
originating in an Indo-Aryan...
- The
Mitanni Letter is a term used in
historiography to
refer to a do****ent
written in the
Hurrian language by the
Mitanni king Tushratta,
dating from...
- BC and had
mostly vanished by 1000 BC.
Hurrian was the
language of the
Mitanni kingdom in
northern Mesopotamia and was
likely spoken at
least initially...
- Old Indo-Aryan: Epic Sanskrit,
classical Sanskrit (c. 200 CE to 1300 CE)
Mitanni Indo-Aryan (c. 1400 BCE)
Middle Indo-Aryan or
Prakrits (c. 300 BCE to 1500...
-
first kingdom.
Their largest and most
influential Hurrian kingdom was
Mitanni. The po****tion of the
Hittite Empire in
Anatolia included a
large po****tion...
-
Hittites and the
Mitanni, the
Ashvin deities Mitra, Varuna, Indra, and
Nasatya are invoked.
These loanwords tend to
connect the
Mitanni superstrate to Indo-Aryan...
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Kikkuli was the
Hurrian "master
horse trainer [****ussanni] of the land of
Mitanni" (LÚA-AŠ-ŠU-UŠ-ŠA-AN-NI ŠA KUR URUMI-IT-TA-AN-NI) and
author of a chariot...
-
Thutmose I to
cross the Euphrates,
doing so
during his
campaign against Mitanni. His
campaign records were
inscribed onto the
walls of the
temple of Amun...
- his
reign saw the
effective cessation of
hostilities between Egypt and
Mitanni, the
major kingdoms vying for
power in Syria. His
reign is
usually dated...
