D'Agostino Anacleto, Orsi Valentina, Torri Giulia (eds.) Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians

Proceedings of the International Conference in Honour of Franca Pecchioli Daddi: Florence, February 6th-8th 2014. — Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2015. — 170 p. — (Studia Asiana; 9). — ISBN: 978-88-6655-903-0 (print), ISBN: 978-88-6655-904-7 (online).This book contains studies on the symbolic significance of the landscape for the communities inhabiting the central Anatolian plateau and the Upper Euphrates and Tigris valleys in the 2nd-1st millennia BC. Some of the scholars who attended to the international conference Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians held in Florence in February 2014, present here contributions on the religious, symbolic and social landscapes of Anatolia between the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age. Archaeologists, hittitologists and historians highlight how the ancient populations perceived many elements of the environment, like mountains, rivers and rocks, but also atmospheric agents, and natural phenomena as essential part of their religious and ideological world. Analysing landscapes, architectures and topographies built by the Anatolian communities in the second and first millennia BC, the framework of a symbolic construction intended for specific actions and practices clearly emerges.Foreword (Anacleto D’Agostino, Valentina Orsi, Giulia Torri).
Per Franca (Alfonso Archi).
Hittite Monuments and Their Sanctity (John David Hawkins).
Hittite Religious Landscapes (Alfonso Archi).
Some Hurrian Cult Centres North of the Taurus and the Travels of the Queen (Massimo Forlanini).
Adapting the Rite to Time and Space: the Hittite Meteorological Ceremonies (Francesco G. Barsacchi).
The Veneration of Lamma of Taurisa and the Discrepancies Between Versions of the An.Taḫ.Šum Festival (Niccolò Galmarini).
Looking for Ziplanda. The Hittite Names of Kuşsaray and Kaletepe (Piotr Taracha).
Die Ausgrabungen in der Unterstadt von Ḫattusa (2009-2014): Erste Vorläufige Ergebnisse (Andreas Schachner).
Planning a Sacred Landscape. Examples from Sarissa and Ḫattusa (Andreas Müller-Karpe).
The Sacred Landscape of Sarissa (Gernot Wilhelm).
The Religious Significance and Sacredness of the Hittite Capital City Sapinuwa (Aygül Süel).
The Sacred City of Hittites: Sapinuwa. The New Excavations (Mustafa Süel).
Building Rituals Attested at the Bronze Age Settlement of Salat Tepe, Demonstrating Luvian, Hurrian and Hittite Rituals in the Upper Tigris Region (Ayşe Tuba Ökse).
Religion and Propaganda under the Great Kings of Karkemiš (Alessandra A. Gilibert).