Talk:Suppiluliuma I
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[edit] Suppiluliuma I and Hippolyte
If Amazons were Hittites then Hippolyte, queen of Amazons, must identified with Suppiluliuma I, king of Hatti.
Take account this note:
1) There was a town Amasia or "Amaseia" in Pontus in Eastern Anatolia.
2) The Amazons were supposed to be daughters of god Ares (in Greek mythlogy).
However, there was an river "Iris" (or Thermodon), in their land.
--Ionn-Korr 09:34, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sources?
This article does not cite any of its sources. Would someone who is working on it please add some cites? If not, I will have to tag it, but want to give an opportunity to see it sourced first. Larry Dunn 13:17, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Name standardization
The possible spellings of Hittite names are too numerous to list all of them. The most popular methodology today is to use 's' for 'sh', and 'h' for the laryngeal. (In the past, these have been normalized as 'sh' and 'kh', but this has fallen by the wayside over time.) A third approach, but more difficult to achieve, is to use 'š' or even 'ş', and a character that isn't available in Wikipedia for the laryngeal (an 'h' with a cupped diacritical under it). It is also standard to show the root stem without the nominative 's' ending. This corresponds with how the Hittites themselves wrote names when they were not attempting to indicate case. Thus 'Mursili'. Variants such as 'Suppiluliumas', 'Shuppiluliumash', 'Suppiluliuma', etc. are easily recognized as the same name. Complicating matters here is that Hittite cuneiform does not distinguish between 'p' and 'b', resulting in even more possible variations. 208.97.196.5 (talk) 16:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
