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Kheta|ˈkɛtə, ˈxɛtə|
Also Khatti, Khita.
[Egyptian name.]
Name of an ancient people and kingdom in the Near East: now usually equated with the Hittites. See Hittite n. and a.
1884W. Wright Empire of Hittites ii. 19 The war between Egypt and Kheta was brought to a close by a treaty of peace concluded between Rameses I. and Saplel the Hittite king. 1890T. Ely Man. Archæol. v. 76 On the monuments [of the Hittites] the name Khita, Kheta, or Khatti..frequently occurs. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet 89 Egyptian inscriptions mention the powerful Kheta-empire. 1952O. R. Gurney Hittites 2 Who could doubt that the Kheta-folk of the Egyptian texts and the Hittites of the Old Testament were one and the same? 1957Encycl. Brit. XI. 599/1 Egyptian evidence shows that in the time of the 18th to the 20th dynasties, between the years 1500–1190 b.c., a powerful northern kingdom Kheta sought perpetually to obtain political influence over Syria and therefore often fought with Egypt. Already the Pharaoh Thutmosis III. (1501–1447), who had conquered Syria as far as the Upper Euphrates, received presents from the prince of Kheta. 1970Bray & Trump Dict. Archaeol. 104 Hittites, Hatti or (to the Egyptians) Kheta, a people who infiltrated Anatolia and in smaller numbers the Levant from the north c 2000 bc, but the details of their origin are more than somewhat obscure. |