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Freydank, Helmut and
Prechel, Doris, "Nochmals zum Brief des Labarna an Tunija von Tikunani" talugaeš witteš", Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Stefano de Martino on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, hrsg. v. Cammarosano, Michele, Devecchi, Elena, Viano, Maurizio (Kasion 2), pp. 193-202,
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which indicates they are part of a palace archive. Three tablets and two prisms, one administrative and one the
Tikunani Prism are held in a private collection and have been published. Eleven tablets, five omen compendia, five administrative, and one lexical are held in the Schøyen Collection and
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Antonio, "El "horizonte geográfico" del Reino de Tigunānum (ca. 1620 a.C)" "Sentido de un empeño". Homenatge a Gregorio del Olmo Lete, hrsg. v. Lluís Feliu Mateu, Adelina Millet Albà, Jordi Vidal Palomino (Barcino. Monographica Orientalia 16)., pp. 83-116,
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Pruzsinszky, Regine, "Who is Who in
Tigunani?: Towards an Understanding of the Sociopolitical Situation in Upper Mesopotamia during the Dark Age in the Second Millennium BCE", Mesopotamia: rivista di archeologia, epigrafia e storia orientale antica: LVIII, 2023, pp. 93-102,
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90:"... be a man with respect to the man of Hahhum. Devour his food rations like a dog! The oxen which you take shall be your own. The sheep and goats which you take shall be your own. Be a man with respect to him! I from this side, and you from that side. ..."
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Weeden, Mark, "Hurrian in a Tablet from Tigunānum", talugaeš witteš. Ancient Near
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Tikunani tablets were held in a private collection, of which 17 have been published. Those tablets have since been sold at auction and their whereabouts unknown. Before the sale they were transliterated by
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George, A.R., "Babylonian documents from North
Mesopotamia", in A.R. George (ed.) Assyrian Archival Texts in the Schøyen Collection and Other Documents, Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology, 34. Bethesda, Md, pp. 95–108,
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Miller, J. L., "Ḫattušili I’s
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have been published. Fifteen omen tablets are held in Japan in the
Hirayama collection, yet unpublished. Two tablets, one omen and one administrative are held in separate private collections and have been published.
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Justel, Josué J., "Remarkable Women from
Tikunani. The Role of Women in Palatial Administration", Gender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East, Approaches from Assyriology and Beyond, pp. 117-128, 2018
86:(c. 1650–1620 BC) though that is not certain. It has been suggested that this is a modern forgery. In the annals of Hattusilli I it is recorded that ruler Tunip-Teššup sent him a "silver chariot".
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Pongratz-Leisten, Beate, "Production of Knowledge in Contact Zones: Mari and Tigunānum in the Old Babylonian Period", Material Worlds: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Archaeopress, pp. 33-41, 2016
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Cox, Rory, "Hatti: Ius in bello; Concepts and Practices", Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 234-266, 2023
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A. R. George, "Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly in the Schøyen Collection. With an Appendix of Material from the Papers of W. G. Lambert", CUSAS 18 = MSCCT 7, Bethesda, CDLI Press, 2013
74:" is written to a vassal king, Tuniya (possibly the same as Tunip-Teššup), the ruler of Tikunani. In the letter the king extorts his vassal for support him in an attack against the city of
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Salvini, Mirjo, "Alcuni nuovi testi dell'archivio di Tikunani", Nomina in aqua scripta. Homenaje a Joaquín María Córdoba Zoilo, hrsg. v. Adolfo J. Domínguez Monedero, pp. 571-584, 2021
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Weeden, Mark, "State correspondence in the Hittite world", in Karen Radner (ed.) State Correspondence in the Ancient World: From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire, pp. 32-64, 2014
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Nicla De Zorzi, "Teratomancy at Tigunānum: Structure, Hermeneutics, and Weltanschauung of a Northern Mesopotamian Omen Corpus", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 69, pp. 125–50, 2017
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The discovery of this text generated much excitement, for it provided much-needed fresh evidence about the nature of the Habiru (or Hapiru) and their possible connection to the
38:. The name refers to both the kingdom and its capital city. Assuming it does refer to the same city, Tigunānum is the older form of the name, appearing in texts excavated from
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Eidem, J., "The Shemshāra Archives 2: The Administrative Texts", Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Historisk-filosofiske Skrifter 15, 1992 Copenhagen
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Durand, Jean-Marieand and Charpin, Dominique, "La lettre de Labarna au roi de Tigunânum, un réexamen,”Aula Orientalis-Supplementa 22, pp. 219–227, 2006
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All known sources are of unknown provenance. It has been suggested that they were illegally excavated in the 1990s. The cuneiform tablets bear a
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Mirjo Salvini, "Una lettera di Hattušili I relativa alla spedizione contro Ḫaḫḫu", in Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, vol. 34, pp.61–80, 1994
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De Zorzi, Nicla, "Another Teratomantic Tablet from Tigunānum", Wiener Zeitschrift Für Die Kunde Des Morgenlandes, vol. 107, pp. 11–18, 2017
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Mirjo Salvini, "The Ḫabiru Prism of King Tunip-Teššup of Tikunani", Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, Rome, 1996
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Akdoğan, R. and Wilhelm, G., "Ein Täfelchen über Gerstenrationen aus Tigunanu(?)", AoF 37, pp. 159–62, 2010
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