THE INDICTMENT OF MADDUWATTA 1520BC

Madduwatta, starving, accompanied by his family and warriors, and pursued by the forces of Attarissiyas, the ruler of Ahhiyawa,
kneels before the Hittite king Tudhaliya and begs for aid.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madduwatta

The Indictment of Madduwatta is a draft of a letter from the Hittite king Arnuwanda I to a (former) vassal, Madduwatta.
The aim of the indictment is unknown. It was perhaps the preamble to an official declaration of war, or a diplomatic attempt to remind him of the help he had always received from Hattusa. No other document found in Hittite, Egyptian, or other ancient archives of the time
mentions this character, but what the incomplete text reveals is a vivid world of intense politics, warfare, treachery, personal goals, and intricacies of diplomatic relations.

Western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age was a patchwork of states, from regional powers to confederations of smaller states. Sandwiched between the hegemonic power of the Hittites to the east and the sea to the west, the rulers of these small states would have had to play a delicate political game to maintain their positions.

Inspirated from Catalin Draghici paint