EXCAVATIONS AT BOGHAZ-KEUt WlNCKLER AND PtJCHSTEIN. 685 



satisfaction over the concluded alliance, would show that queens acted 

 independently even in the lifetime of their husbands. 



The edict of Dudhalia seems to bear on the regulation of internal 

 affairs concerning the possessions of powerful subjects, and enumer- 

 ates many cities and places, closing Avith the names of witnesses. 



A treaty (in private possession) with the King of Aleppo (Halab) 

 containing, like other similar documents, an historical introduction 

 seems likewise to have been drawn up during his reign. 



Dudhalia 's son and successor, Arnuanta, is at present known only 

 from three documents — two fragments of edicts and the doom book 

 found in the gate of the inner wall. The latter bears the royal seal 

 with a Hittite and cuneiform legend. The former is broken off; the 

 latter may be read : 



[Se]al of the edict (tabarna) of Arnuanta, great King, son of Du-u[d-ha-li. 

 [S]eal of lady Ta-wa-asli-shi (??), lady Mu-ni-Dan, great Queen, * * *?, 

 daughter of Du-ud-ha-li-i[a]. 



Was the first of the tw^o ladies named the mother — that is, the wife 

 of Dudhalia ? His own wife was also his sister — another instance of 

 marriage between brother and sister in the royal house — which here, 

 as among the Pharohs, may have had a mythological reason. The 

 Chatti King, too, was the " sun " — like the Pharaoh or Inca. 



There seem to be no other accounts of this reign. The reign of 

 Arnuanta in all probability coincided with the great retrogression of 

 Assyria after the fall of Tukulti-Ninib. As Egypt was likewise 

 weak at that time, it is to be assumed that the territory of the Hittite 

 peoples was not much exposed to its influence from about 1250 to 1150 

 B. C, and as a consequence we have no records for that period. It 

 is only under Tiglath-Pileser I that we have further accounts, from 

 which fact it may be concluded that the Chatti land also has passed 

 through great revolutions which led to the decay of the state. Tig- 

 lath-Pileser defeated the Chatti King and was thereupon recognized 

 by Egypt as the legitimate successor to the Chatti claims in Syria 

 and northern Palestine. Henceforth " Chatti land " is for Assyria 

 a territory standing under Assyrian supremacy, but the term is also 

 limited to Syria and northern Palestine. ' In Asia Minor there are 

 now for Assyria only " Muski," who appear in place of the former 

 Chatti state. 



Alongside of Chatti, the state of Mitani seems, according to the 

 Amarna letters, to have played the most important part. The numer- 

 ous and lengthy letters of King Tushratta and the similar relations 

 to Egypt entertained b}^ his two predecessors warranted this conclu- 

 sion. It seemed strange that this correspondence broke off immedi- 

 ately after the accession of Amenophis IV. 



It was possible to infer from other documents that the territory of 

 Mitani had fallen to rising Assyria, which shortly before was its 



