relationship · rel_place_wilusa_possibly_identified_as_site_troy
rel_place_wilusa_possibly_identified_as_site_troy
Linguistic and geographic arguments support identifying Hittite Wilusa with Ilios/Troy, though the equivalence is not direct textual proof.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: plausible. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
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Research description
Linguistic and geographic arguments support identifying Hittite Wilusa with Ilios/Troy, though the equivalence is not direct textual proof.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports relationship
The Ahhiyawa Texts — Gary Beckman, Trevor Bryce, Eric H. Cline (2011)Linguistic and geographic arguments support identifying Hittite Wilusa with Ilios/Troy, though the equivalence is not direct textual proof.