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KUB XXIII. 13: a possible contemporary Bronze Age source for the sack of Troy/Hisarlik?

1997; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 92; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0068245400016671

2045-2403

Ove Hansen,

Ancient Near East History

The cuneiform tablet from the Hittite capital Hattusa/Boğazköy, KUB XXIII. 13, reports Hittite warfare in western/north-western Asia Minor around 1240 BC, when the so-called Seha River Land fought against the Hittites and their king Tuthaliyas IV As the date of the war is contemporary with the sack of ‘Mycenaean’ Troy VI, there is a possibility that the conflict described in the tablet could have provided the historical background for the Iliad. Moreover, the etymology of the River Seha seems to be the same as that of the Scamander at Hisarlik, but the Dardanelles could also originally have had that name.