In 2014, it emerged that a tablet referred to as tablet CTH 183 written in the Hittite language utilizing the cuneiform script was a letter commissioned by a Mycenaean Greek king and sent to a Hittite king (most likely Muwatalli II who reigned ca 1295-1272 BCE) over the rightful ownership of a group of islands off of the Anatolian coast that had formed a part of a dowry in a previous generation. The diplomatic marriage of the Mycenaean king to an unknown Assuwan princess was the reason that the Assuwa people had given the lands in question as part of her marriage dowry to the king.
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