Mount Pahurina
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Mount Pahurina was one of the lands of the Assuwa coalition in Bronze Age Anatolia that opposed the Hittites toward the end of the fifteenth century BC. It is named only in the Annals of Tudḫaliya, a text that chronicled the acts of Hittite monarch Tudḫaliya I.[1]
Geography
The site of Mount Pahurina is undocumented. Mount Erciyes, Acıgöl–Nevşehir, Mount Hasan, Göllü Dağ, Karapinar Field and Mount Karadağ are the only volcanoes in central Anatolia that would appear to lay within reach of the Hittites during this era.[5] The aftermath of a volcanic eruption is believed to be described in the Telipinu myth.[6]