Storia o leggenda di un re di Mitanni? L' "Epopea di Krt" e le fonti antico-hittite

The first king of Mitanni, Kirta, is cited on his son and follower Shuttarna I’s cylinder seal and has not other mentions, even if we find this name in some people lists without any attribute. A man named Krt is the main character of the epic found in Ugarit and the mythical tale might have some points in contact with the Res Gestae attributed to Murshili I. Krt, king of Khabara, for failing to keep his a vow to the goddess Athirat, becomes seriously ill, and his eldest son tries to take his father throne, but only after the intervention of his youngest daughter the situation will be resolved in the best way. There are some interpretations of “Khabara”, but in the ugaritic epic the city has the attribute of “full of water” and might locate the site is in the Khabur region, i.e. in the very heart of the Mitanni Kingdom. The disease of the king is also present in the Res Gestae and in other old-hittite sources that seem to deal with the death of the hurrian king and of a fratricidal struggle that follows. The two stories seem to be two narrations, one historical and one mythical, of the same episode occurred during the reign of the first king of Mitanni, Kirta, that became some kind of dynastic myth (as well as the seal of Shuttarna I) for the Mitanni royal family