Levant of a distinct pottery type, Nuzi ware.

Etymology

The name "Mitanni"/"Mittani"

The name of this state has been explained as a derivation with the Hurrian suffix from a stem borrowed from Indo-Aryan, , which is cognate with the Sanskrit verb (????; ). The name thus would mean the .

Gernot Wilhelm has instead suggested that Maittan(n)i means , the name of "an individual leader (or clan), and not

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