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@Carlos Eduardo Aramayo B.: I am going to say that this article is in an order of magnitude better condition than it was before. My sense is that there are two main things left to do, one easy, one hard.

Redo ruler table - I'm thinking maybe a split into kings and vassals and blending in some info from the table I removed a while ago but I'm just skybluing here.
History and ruler blurbs - The hard part. I reread Mitanni#Artashumara_and_Tushratta and rolled my eyes like a dozen times. All the weasel words! The complete lack of sources! Etc. And it almost seems to me that this stuff should properly be in the History section. Thoughts?

If there is other stuff you see needs to be done feel free.Ploversegg (talk) 17:29, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly, both issues you mention have to be revised. Section in De Martino's table that can be used is the part he refers to 'Principate of Mittani' and 'Rise of the kingdom of Mittani.' I see he is refering to 'Habigalbat' period. Regarding large sections of kings with no reference, this is an issue it needs to be solved, maybe slowly. It would be also needed to shorten a little Mitanni#Artashumara_and_Tushratta and maybe also Mitanni#Shattiwaza / Kurtiwaza.--Carlos Eduardo Aramayo B. (talk) 19:04, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Carlos Eduardo Aramayo B.:Actually Luckenbill does use etc several times. [1] Not that anyone will notice. I wish I had a newer translation but this was the best I could find. At least now I can tell what the tablet actually said vs what was already in article.Ploversegg (talk) 02:23, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Carlos Eduardo Aramayo B.: Dates. I hereby give you carte blanche to pick regnal dates for Mitanni rulers. Note though that Assyrian cross dates cannot be fully relied on after 1133 BC because the limmu eponym dating system starts to unravel. Personally I am a bit doubtful even up to 1133 BC. PS We also don't know if there is a ruler between Shattiwaza and Shattuara I like a son with the daughter of Suppiluliuma I. :-)Ploversegg (talk) 21:46, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Neither Mladjov (2019), nor von Dassow (2022) consider a king between Shattiwaza and Shattuara I, and these are among the latest analyses on this issue. Von Dassow even has a detailed outline in page 471 regarding royalty contemporary relationships. I also have doubts on using too early secondary sources, I prefer recent publications. Of course, accurate datings are not avalaible, but approximate chronology is very useful, even though future scholarship can change the scenario. Regarding Assyrians and datings after 1133 BC I have no opinion, by now. On the other hand, I appreciate your quotings of primary sources (tablets).--Carlos Eduardo Aramayo B. (talk) 00:16, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I looked at the chart on 471, which is fine though dateless. Were did the dates come from? I'm sure they are fine, I just like things chronological. And Van Dassow has minor issues. For example I read the entire Hittite treaty twice and don't know where they got the idea that the treaty with Artatama II was abrogated. Maybe it happened in some other document.Ploversegg (talk) 02:13, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it seems Eva von Dassow does not explain much on how did she use some sources for dating. On the other hand, Ian Mladjov considers that: "While my reconstruction does not depend precisely on any specific chronology, I am currently inclined toward a Lowered Middle Chronology for Mesopotamia (fall of Babylon 1587 BC: de JONG and FOERTMEYER 2010; MANNING et al. 2016 and 2017) and a version of the Low Chronology for Egypt (Thutmose III from 1479 BC; Rameses II from 1279 BC: von BECKERATH 1997; KRAUSS 2015)..." and that his list "assumes generations of 20–30 years, adjusted to ﬁt any known synchronisms."--Carlos Eduardo Aramayo B. (talk) 02:34, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am always amused when people talk about the Egyptian Chronology like it is set in stone. It has a lot of holes covered by wallpaper. The entire Third Intermediate Period of Egypt is a mess. And we won't even start with how many rulers have uncertain regnal lengths or possible overlaps in rulership. By the time you get to the Mitanni Period I consider Egyptian dates accurate to +/- 25 years, maybe a bit worse. That's why they try to shore it up with the limmu lists and a suspect astronomical event or two. Unfortunately, if you doubt the standard EC you look like a pyramids built by UFO aliens person.:-) Its just the opposite in the aNE where there are a slew of different chronologies and nobody agrees. I prefer to stay "chronology-agnostic" (not even fully buying the whole Venus Tablet thing) and think of it as number of islands formed by synchronisms in an ocean of floating chronology. Slowly we are gluing the islands together. Some day we will have a continent. Anyone who doesn't think its that messy I point to Chronology of the ancient Near East.Ploversegg (talk) 03:47, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Carlos Eduardo Aramayo B.: I've run out of stuff to poke on the Mitanni article. If something is needed let me know. It looks pretty good compared to before.Ploversegg (talk) 23:57, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As you say, the article is much better now, and with more references. You did a good labor.--Carlos Eduardo Aramayo B. (talk) 02:42, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, not sure whether this is the right place to bring this up, and I’m far from an expert on Ancient Near East civilizations, but I can read IPA, and the gloss /mɪˈtæni/ (at the top of the article) strikes me as pretty unlikely for the word “Mitanni,” just eyeballing it as a native English speaker. Specifically, I think someone has made a mistake in the vowel of the second syllable. I haven’t heard the word spoken aloud, but for anyone who has, is the second syllable really pronounced like the word “tan”? It seems to me that the vowel /ɑ/ (in full, /mɪˈtɑni/), the one in the first word syllable of the word “father,” is more plausible. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:42:C080:E970:D1BB:6BB1:11F7:93E6 (talk) 16:46, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Name

Under "Name" Maryannu is listed. This is not a name of Mitanni at all (certainly not by the Egyptians, as the article claims), but the term used for chariot warriors. It needs to be removed. As the page is protected, I cannot do this myself. Shedsunefertum17 (talk) 10:58, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Now corrected. Shedsunefertum17 (talk) 20:45, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Indo

If these influences are considered specifically INDO-Aryan, does it mean that they arrived from India? Or did these languages separate somewhere in the Steppe? In that case when? Either much more than 4000 years ago, or Cemetery H can't have any relation to Indo-Aryans. Or Cemetery H is much younger than 3900 years. --95.24.64.92 (talk) 22:31, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Minor corrections to English

I intend to correct a few infelicities in the English of this article. In most cases the meaning is quite clear, but I can make no sense of "due to this pottery was a continuity from non-Mitannian previous Old Babylonian period" in the section "Archaeology/Upper Mesopotamia/Northeastern Syria (Jazira Region)". Can anyone help with a re-wording? Another point I need help on: in "Mitanni rulers / Wasashatta", final sentence, the name "Hittle" looks like a typo for "Hittite". RoachPeter (talk) 07:04, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(I have now done what I can) — Preceding unsigned comment added by RoachPeter (talk • contribs) 09:24, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Remove "Historical Vedic religion" from religion section. This is not substantiated by the sources listed. Waxwing96 (talk) 03:40, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done SmittenGalaxy | talk! 08:55, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]