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This article commemorating Emmanuel Laroche’s 100th birthday continues a series of discourses on newly defined cult practices and ritual spaces at Alalakh (Yener 2014, 2015a, 2015b). Although Alalakh is only periodically woven into the fabric of the Hittite world of which Laroche has contributed so much over the years, as a result of the new round of excavations the realization has grown that Alalakh’s important cult center of the goddess Ishtar played a crucial role in Hittite administration... |