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heritage, though it is uncertain if the kingdom was of Indo-European origin. The suffix -hattim most certainly refers to the Hattians. It was transliterated as Pu-ru-us-ha-an-da in the oldest Hittite texts (1650 -1500 BCE) and Pu-u-ru-us-ha-an-da (or -ta) in the newer ones (13th century BCE), resulting in the modern spelling Purushanda. The allophone variation of P/B is from the Akkadian language, which variously transliterated the

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