Aripša

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Aripša is the Hittite name of a late Bronze Age fortified settlement on the coast of the Black Sea in northeastern Anatolia, which belonged to Azzi . Their exact location is uncertain.

Aripša was conquered and plundered by Hittite troops in the 10th year of the reign of the Hittite great king Muršili II (approx. 1312 BC) as part of a campaign against Azzi. The population fled to the nearby mountains when the Hittite army approached, while the remaining troops from Azzi defended Aripša, but could not prevent it from being captured. The defenders were carried off to the Hittite heartland as “spoils of war”, as were cattle, sheep and other goods that had been captured.

Based on the information in the ten-year annals Muršilis , an attempt was made to localize Aripša. It is said there that the settlement is in the water, which suggests a location on a peninsula. Emil Forrer looked for the town on Lake Van in 1931 . According to today's knowledge, this would be too far to the east, especially if one takes into account the information on the locations of other Azzis settlements relative to Aripša. Garstang and Gurney, on the other hand, suspected a peninsula on the Black Sea and identified Aripša on the basis of Muršili's information about his campaigns with today's Giresun . Charles Burney also thinks this localization is possible, but it is uncertain and cannot be proven.

Remarks

  1. ↑ There are various calculations of a solar eclipse mentioned by Muršili at the beginning of the tenth year of his term in office. s. in addition Peter J. Huber : The Solar Omen of Muršili II. Journal of the American Oriental Society 121/4, 2001, pp. 640–644 and Volkert Haas : History of the Hittite Religion (= Handbook of Oriental Studies, Volume 15). Brill, Leiden, 1994, p. 27; Trevor Bryce follows the year 1312 BC. One of the two dates for the solar eclipse given by Haas (in addition to this, 1308 BC).
  2. ↑ Emil Forrer: Hayasa-Azzi-Azzi. In: Caucasica 9, 1931, p. 19.
  3. ^ John Garstang, Oliver R. Gurney: The Geography of the Hittite Empire. British Institute of Archeology at Ankara, London 1959, p. 38.
  4. ^ Charles Burney : Historical Dictionary of the Hittites. Rowman & Littlefield (2nd edition), Lanham 2018, p. 49.

literature

  • John Garstang , Oliver R. Gurney : The Geography of the Hittite Empire. British Institute of Archeology at Ankara, London 1959, pp. 37-39.
  • Trevor Bryce : The Routledge Handbook of The People and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire . Routledge 2009, ISBN 978-1-134-15908-6 , p. 63, sv Aripsa .