Anitta
Proper noun
Meaning
Anitta (plural Anittas)
name of a king of ancient Kussara. The earliest known ruler to compose a text in the Hittite language. The author of the 'Anitta text' - the oldest known text in the Hittite language (the oldest known Indo-European text altogether).
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Anitta performing during the rehearsal for the Pre-Carnaval Show in São Paulo on Jan.
Anitta was succeeded by Zuzzu (r. 1720–10); but sometime in 1710–05, Kanesh was destroyed taking the long-established Assyrian merchant trading system with it.
These tablets, known collectively as the Anitta text, ed. StBoT 18 begin by telling how Pithana the king of Kussara or Kussar (a small city-state yet to be identified by archaeologists) conquered the neighbouring city of Neša ( Kanesh ).