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Hattusili and Piyamaradu: Conflicts in South-central Anatolia?
The Annals of Hattusili III (CTH 82) mention an enemy who seems to have conquered towns that are known from the Bronze Tablet and KBo 4.10 and thus have to be in oder bordering on Tarhuntassa. It was, however, never quite clear who this mysterious enemy was and how extensive his campaigns were. Through a new evaluation of the texts of the aforementioned texts in combination with texts treating similar events, I will try to show that at least a part the Annals of Hattusili III deal with an attack by Piyamaradu. So this notorious troublemaker not only caused problems in western Anatolia but proceeded far inland and worried Hattusili even in an area normally thought to be under steady control by the Hittites in that period.