Mitra esmamainimine Hetiidi kuninga Suppiluliuma I ja Mitanni kuninga Sattiwaza lepingus?

• Authors: Lahe Jaan , Sazonov Vladimir

Title variants

EN

FIRST MENTION OF MITRA IN THE TREATY BETWEEN THE HITTITE KING ŠUPPILULIUMA I AND THE MITTANNIAN RULER ŠATTIWAZA?

• Languages of publication: ET

Abstracts

EN

In 1907 a treaty was found in the Hittite royal archive in Boğazköy. It was forged between the Hittite king Šuppiluliuma I and the Mitanni king Šatiwaza. Among the deities named in this contract is DINGIR.MEŠ Mi-it-ra-aš-ši-il. This is usually understood to refer to the god Mitra. However, the authors of this article draw attention to the fact that the name occurs in the plural form; the divine classifier DINGIR (“god” before Mitra’s name) is written in the plural form DINGIR.MEŠ, meaning “gods”. They are of the opinion that it should not be understood as a proper name but as a denomination of a group of deities that one could translate as “gods of the treaties”.

Keywords

EN

gods of treaties; Hittites; Indo-Europeans; Mitra; state of Mitanni; Šattiwaza; treaty; Šuppiluliuma I

• Publisher: Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Institute of Folklore, EKM Teaduskirjastus
• Journal: Mäetagused
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 73
• Pages: 5-14

Contributors

author

Lahe Jaan

• Institute of Theology of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pühavaimu 6, 10123 Tallinn, ESTONIA / Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, Kase 61, 12012 Tallinn, ESTONIA

author

Sazonov Vladimir

• Institute of Theology of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pühavaimu 6, 10123 Tallinn, ESTONIA / Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, Kase 61, 12012 Tallinn, ESTONIA