OANNES - Uluslararası Eskiçağ Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Hasan TUNCER

Konular:Tarih

Anahtar Kelimeler:Hittite,Arrow,War,Cuneiform,GIŠ/GIKAK.Ú.TAG.GA

Özet: Arrow, which is the most ancient weapon to be used by humankind, has been a war tool in time while it was used for hunting at first. Arrow became the main weapon in ancient era with the bow that is used with it. We know that lots of war tools were used in Hittite country. One of that tools is GIŠ/GIKAK.Ú.TAG.GA which appears in Hittite Cuneiform scripts. That tool which we translate as “arrow”, is not used as only war tool when we examine cuneiform scripts. It occured in different kinds of scripts and with different usage purposes other than that. In our article, we try to give information about the function and the purpose of use the Hittite word GIŠ/GIKAK.Ú.TAG.GA, the arrow, documenting its encounters in texts in Hittite cuneiform scripts.

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