Maryannu
The Maryannu were a caste of
Indo-Aryan word, formed by adding Hurrian suffix -nni to Indo-Aryan root márya, meaning "(young) man"[1] or a "young warrior".[2] Philologist Martin West suggested that the name Meriones, a character in Homeric epic, is "identical" to maryannu.[3] Thus, Mērionēs would be the Homeric Greek version of the term, reflected in pre-Mycenaean poetic verse as Mārionās.[4]
The term is attested in the Amarna letters written by Haapi. Majority of the Maryannu had Semitic and Hurrian names.[5][6]
See also
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- Bronze Age Collapse: changes in warfare
References
- ^ von Dassow, Eva, (2014). "Levantine Polities under Mittanian Hegemony". In: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Nicole Brisch and Jesper Eidem (eds.). Constituent, Confederate, and Conquered Space: The Emergence of the Mittani State, p. 27
- ISBN 978-0-691-02951-1. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ISBN 0-19-815042-3.
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- ^ Drews, p. 155
- ISBN 9783110251586.
Further reading
- Abbas, Mohamed Raafat (2013). "The Maryannu in the Western Desert during the Ramesside Period". Abgadiyat. 8 (1): 128–133. .
- Albright, W. F. (1930). "Mitannian maryannu, " chariot-warrior ", and the Canaanite and Egyptian Equivalents". Archiv für Orientforschung. 6: 217–221. JSTOR 41661828.
- O'Callaghan, R. T. (1951). "New Light on the Maryannu as 'Chariot Warrior'". Jahrbuch für kleinasiatische Forschung. pp. 309–324. OCLC 55568033.
- REVIV, H. (1972). "Some Comments on the Maryannu". Israel Exploration Journal. 22 (4): 218–228. JSTOR 27925358.
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