Šanaḫuitta

Šanaḫuitta or Schanahuitta was a Hittite city ​​in northern Anatolia.

history

Ancient Assyrian texts from Kültepe name the place Šinaḫuttum, where there was a trading post ( wabartum ). The place is to be found in northeastern Anatolia in the wider area of Ḫattuš and Durḫumit. It was the seat of a local king who rivaled Ḫattuš.

The will of the Hittite king Ḫattušili I also reports on a military conflict between the two cities of Šanaḫuitta and Ḫattuša, which took place at the time of his father. After the consolidation of the Hittite Empire it remained a local administrative center, but lost in the 13th century BC. Chr. Completely in importance.

The most important deity worshiped here was the weather god of lightning ( ^d U piḫami ).

literature

• Oliver Robert Gurney : The Hittite Names of Kerkenes Dağ and Kuşaklı Höyük . In: Anatolian Studies 45, 1995, pp. 69-71
• Ronald L. Gorny : Zippalanda and Ankuwa. The geography of Central Anatolia in the Second Millennium B.C. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society 117, 1997, pp. 549-557
• Gojko Barjamovic: A Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period. Copenhagen 2011, ISBN 978-87-635-3645-5 . Pp. 286-291.