Alaksandu

Alaksandu was a ruler of the Hittite vassal state Wilusa in the 13th century BC

He is best known from a state contract that was found during the excavations in Boğazkale under the clay tablet cuneiform discoveries of the Hittite palace archive, the so-called Alaksandu Treaty. In him the Great King Muwatalli II recognizes him as a vassal (about 1294 BC to 1272 BC) and assured him of his protection.

Already in the 1920s had not only an identity of the kingdom with the city of Troy suspects, but also of the ruler with the Priam 's son Paris, who is in the Homeric Iliad predominantly called Alexandros. These names equation is discussed again today reinforced since a seal was with Hittite ( Luwian ) characters found in the excavations at Troy. Proved it is not.

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