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Document Details : Title: Was Pimpira Regent for the Underaged King Muršili I? Subtitle: A New Look at an Old Hittite Prince Author(s): GILAN, Amir Journal: Anatolica Volume: 50 Date: 2024 Pages: 53-65 DOI: 10.2143/ANA.50.0.3293607 Abstract : Emil Forrer’s Geschichtliche Texte aus dem alten und neuen Chatti-Reich (BoTU 2), published in 1926, is a pioneering milestone in the study of Hittite history and historiography. It contains a compilation of key historical texts, and many of Forrer’s readings and insights remain common wisdom to this day. One particularly 'persistent' suggestion of Forrer, often repeated in modern scholarship, concerns the Old Hittite prince Pimpira. Forrer ingeniously combined the evidence of various Hittite sources, among them the fragments attributed to Pimpira himself (CTH 24), the 'Palace Anecdotes' (CTH 8), the 'Political Testament of Ḫattušili I' (CTH 6) and the 'Offering Lists' (CTH 661) to suggest that prince Pimpira acted as a regent for the child king Muršili I. The present article will throw a fresh look at the Hittite sources pertaining to Pimpira and will argue that Forrer’s long-lasting hypothesis should finally be discarded. It will also shed new light on Pimpira’s role in Hittite history as well as on the instructional composition authored by him. |
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