Anitta , son of Pitḫana , reigned ca. 1740–1725 BC ( middle chronology ), and was a king of Kuššara , a city that has yet to be identified. He is the earliest known ruler to compose a text in the Hittite language .
5-421: Anitta may refer to: Anitta (king) , Hittite king Anitta (singer) (born 1993), Brazilian singer Anitta Müller-Cohen (1890–1962), Austrian-born Israeli social worker, politician and writer See also [ edit ] Anita (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
10-583: Is considered by Alfonso Archi as originally written in Akkadian language and Old Assyrian script, at the time Anitta ruled from Kanesh , when Assur colonies were still in Anatolia. This text seems to represent a cuneiform record of Anitta's inscriptions at Kanesh too, perhaps compiled by Hattusili I , one of the earliest Hittite kings of Hattusa . The Anitta text indicates that Anitta's father conquered Neša (Kanesh, Kültepe ), which became an important city within
15-512: The kingdom of Kuššara . During his own reign, Anitta defeated Huzziya , the last recorded king of Zalpuwa , and the Hattic king Piyusti and then conquered his capital at the site of the future Hittite capital of Hattusa . He then destroyed the city, sowed the ground with weeds, and laid a curse on the site. Anitta's name appears on an inscription on a dagger found in Kültepe and also, together with
20-541: The title Anitta . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anitta&oldid=1110682567 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Anitta (king) His high official, or rabi simmiltim ,
25-587: Was named Peruwa. Anitta, according to the middle chronology , reigned c. 1740–1725 BC, or alternatively c. 1730-1715 BC (low middle chronology), and is the author of the Anitta text ( CTH 1.A, edited in StBoT 18, 1974), the oldest known text in the Hittite language , also classified as "cushion-shaped" tablet KBo 3.22, being the oldest known text in an Indo-European language altogether. Also known as Deeds of Anitta , it
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