Hittite Involvement in Western Anatolia
- 23 December 1976
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Anatolian Studies
- Vol. 26, 117-128
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3642720
Abstract
In addition to security considerations, the course of Hittite history can largely be explained by the economic motif, to control the sources and markets of metals.The expulsion or departure of the Assyrian merchants from Anatolia at the end of Anittas' reign not only deprived the newly founded Hittite Kingdom in the central plateau of the organized trade which, among other commodities, supplied Anatolia with its imported tin (from. Assur), but also cut it off from the supply centres in the East Mediterranean and North Syria, by now under the control of the strong Yamhadian Dynasty.In Anatolia itself the mineral-rich regions, which supplied both Anatolian and Mesopotamian provinces with copper, silver and lead, were mostly in the northern and eastern areas which the Hittites, due to the geo-political situation already pointed out by Mellaart, could not control or controlled with difficulty. This situation no doubt forced the Hittites to turn to alternative mineral-fields and supply centres in areas west of the plateau.Keywords
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