Round 3: Tossup 7

In 2022, archaeologists in this city found red painted hieroglyphics in a tunnel under a gate decorated with sphinxes, which may be a locally developed writing system first identified at Hamath by Archibald Sayce. A large, mysterious jade cube was found at this city’s temple of Tarḫunna. Reliefs of mountain deities with scaled skirts are cut into the walls of this city’s Yazilikaya sanctuary. A king from Kuššara (“koo-SHAR-a”) changed his name from (*) Labarna to reference this city after he moved to it from (10[1])Neša (“NESH-a”) in the 17th century BC. Copies of two lost silver tablets found in this city and Thebes record the Eternal Treaty signed a decade after the Battle of Kadesh; that document was signed (10[2])by Ramesses II and a brother of Muwatalli II named for this city. For 10 points, name this primary capital of the Hittite Empire. ■END■

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