Mount Pahurina was one of the lands of the Assuwa coalition in Bronze Age Anatolia that opposed the Hittites toward the end of the fifteenth century BC. It is named only in the Annals of Tudḫaliya, a text that chronicled the acts of Hittite monarch Tudḫaliya I.Bryce, Trevor. (1999). The Kingdom of the Hittites. United Kingdom, Oxford University Press. Google Books.
Etymology
The name derives from the Luwic root pāḫūr meaning "fire"Katicic, R. (2012). Ancient Languages of the Balkans, p. 59. Germany: Mouton & Company N.V., Publishers. Internet Archive and the denominal verb ina.Sasseville, D. (2020). Anatolian Verbal Stem Formation: Luwian, Lycian and Lydian. Netherlands: Chapter 17. Brill. The name suggests a volcano.Hawkins, John David. (2015). "Hittite Monuments and Their Sanctity." Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians: Proceedings of the International Conference in Honour of Franca Pecchioli Daddi, Florence, February 6th-8th, 2014. Italy: Firenze University Press.
Geography
The site of Mount Pahurina is undocumented. Mount Erciyes, Acıgöl–Nevşehir, Mount Hasan, Göllü Dağ, Karapinar Field and Mount Karadağ are the only volcanoes in central Anatolia that would appear to lay within reach of the Hittites during this era.Brinkmann, R. (1976). Geology of Turkey. Germany: Enke. The aftermath of a volcanic eruption is believed to be described in the Telipinu myth.Lehmann, J. (1977). The Hittites: People of a Thousand Gods. United Kingdom: Collins.
History
Mount Pahurina is named as one of the lands that comprised the Assuwa coalition, a military confederacy of twenty-two towns that opposed the Hittite army as it campaigned across the Maraššantiya:
As with most of the Assuwa coalition states, it is not attested anywhere else.Gander, Max. (2022). The West: Philology, p. 264-266. Hittite Landscape and Geography, Netherlands: Brill. Academia.edu
See also Ancient regions of Anatolia Assuwa
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