By Craig Melchert
The Luwians performed a minimum of as vital a job because the Hittites within the heritage of the traditional close to East throughout the moment and primary millennia BCE, yet for numerous purposes they've been overshadowed via or even harassed with their extra recognized family members and neighbours. Redressing this imbalance, this quantity by means of a world staff of students bargains a complete, cutting-edge appraisal of the Luwians. a short advent units the context and confronts the matter of defining "the Luwians". Following chapters describe their prehistory, historical past, writing and language, faith and fabric tradition.
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It is important to stress that the unusual characteristic sound change of initial *s- > d- assures us that we dealing here with Luwian in the strict narrow sense, not merely a language related to Luwian. 5 Contra Starke (2001 40) the adaptation of the Greek name Alexander as a w-stem in the name of the King of Wilusa Alaksandu is at least as compatible with Lydian as it is with Luwian. Likewise there is nothing definitively Luwian in the form of the names of the other two known kings of Wilusa, Kukkunni and Walmu (in contrast to those of other western Anatolian kingdoms— see the table in Starke 2001 37).
29 Trying to correlate the linguistic developments and supposed population movements just described with changes in prehistoric cultures reflected in the archaeological record is a parlous enterprise. There does seem to be broad agreement that there is a high degree of cultural continuity in Anatolia from the Early through the Middle Bronze Age with relatively little evidence of 'destruction layers': see among others Yakar (1981) and Mellaart (1981). To this extent the archaeological findings agree with the conclusions reached above on linguistic grounds in pointing to a relatively long and slow infiltration and acculturation rather than 'invasion' or 'conquest' and the imposition of a ruling class of Indo-Europeans on pre-existing populations (such as the Hattians).
The cases in question deal with crimes of abduction involving the crossing of territorial boundaries between Hatti and Luwiya. Such crimes, whether committed by Hittites against Luwians, either in Hatti or Luwiya, or by Luwians in Hittite territory were liable to legal retribution as specified in the Laws. This need not mean that Hatti exercised any form of political or administrative control over the region covered by the term Luwiya. Indeed it may not have done so, effectively, until well into the period of the Hittite New Kingdom (see below).