The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East, pp. 715-750, 2023/04/12
Proceedings of the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale and the 12th Melammu Symposium, University of Innsbruck, July 16‒20, 2018
Many Old Assyrian texts and a few Hittite ones mention the kingdom of Purušhanda, which was situated on the plains of the Anatolian plateau. The location of its capital – the city of Purušhanda – is still an ongoing discussion in Assyriology. In 2006 Kawakami thoroughly described the discussion concerning the location. Today, three views persist regarding the location of the city: at the archaeological site of Acemhöyük, at the site of Karahöyük-Konya or “somewhere” in the area of the land of Pedassa c. 200 km northwest of Konya. Barjamovic recently withdrew his proposal that the city of Purušhanda could have been located at the site of Bolvadin-Üchöyük in the land of Pedassa. He suggests a new location for the city of Purušhanda: ”Somewhere in the Eber- Akşehir valley between Afyon and Ilgin.”
