Abstrakt
Inventories of royal gifts, among other documents, are regarded as one of the main sources of evidence for diplomatic practices in the Ancient Near East of the Late Bronze Age. The objects mentioned in these texts can be interpreted as artefacts of high status and prestige and would as such be understood by both parties in the communication; the respective senders and recipients.
It is the main aim of the paper to pinpoint some formal traditions of these lists as well as to identify the respective objects of interest and place these into a wider chronological and geographical frame- work with special attention given to the fragmentary document KUB 3.39 (Bo 678), originally ascribed by its editor, E. Edel, to either Puduhepa or Hattušili III and addressed to Ramesses II.