Hrozný and Hittite : the first hundred years : proceedings of the International Conference held at Charles University, Prague, 11-14 November 2015 / edited by Ronald I. Kim, Jana Mynářová, Peter Pavúk.

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  • Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
  • ©2020
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Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 107. [More in this series]
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This volume collects 33 papers that were presented at the international conference held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in November 2015 to celebrate the centenary of Bedřich Hrozný’s identification of Hittite as an Indo-European language. Contributions are grouped into three sections, “Hrozný and His Discoveries,” “Hittite and Indo-European,” and “The Hittites and Their Neighbors,” and span the full range of Hittite studies and related disciplines, from Anatolian and Indo-European linguistics and cuneiform philology to Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, history, and religion. The authors hail from 15 countries and include leading figures as well as emerging scholars in the fields of Hittitology, Indo-European, and Ancient Near Eastern studies.
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Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Hrozný and His Discoveries
  • 1 Hrozný’s Excavations at Kültepe and the Resurrection of a Bronze Age Palace
  •   / Gojko Barjamovic
  • 2 Hrozný’s Excavations, 1924–1925: Sheikh Sa’ad, Tell Erfad
  •   / Jan Bouzek
  • 3 Hrozný and the Decipherment of Hieroglyphic Luwian
  •   / J.D. Hawkins
  • 4 Bedřich Hrozný and the Aegean Writing Systems: An Early Decipherment Attempt
  •   / Artemis Karnava
  • 5 A Fruitful Collaboration between E. Sellin and B. Hrozný during his Viennese Years: The Cuneiform Texts from Tell Taanach and Their Impact on Syro-Levantine Studies
  •   / Regine Pruzsinszky
  • Part 2: Hittite and Indo-European
  • 6 Consonant Clusters, Defective Notation of Vowels and Syllable Structure in Caromemphite
  •   / Ignasi-Xavier Adiego
  • 7 Tagging and Searching the Hittite Corpus
  •   / Dita Frantíková
  • 8 The Phonetics and Phonology of the Hittite Dental Stops
  •   / Alwin Kloekhorst
  • 9 Über die hethitische 3. Sg. Präsens auf / -ia-Iz-zi
  •   / Martin Joachim Kümmel
  • 10 The Word for / Wine in Anatolian, Greek, Armenian, Italic, Etruscan, Semitic and Its Indo-European Origin
  •   / Reiner Lipp
  • 11 Satzanfänge im Hethitischen
  •   / Rosemarie Lühr
  • 12 Hittite Historical Phonology after 100 Years (and after 20 Years)
  •   / H. Craig Melchert
  • 13 MUNUS/f / duttarii̯ata/i- and Some Other Indo-European Maidens
  •   / Veronika Milanova
  • 14 One Century of Heteroclitic Inflection
  •   / Georges-Jean Pinault
  • 15 From Experiential Contact to Abstract Thought: Reflections on Some Hittite Outcomes of PIE / *steh / 2 / - ‘to stand’ and / *men- ‘to think’
  •   / Marianna Pozza
  • 16 Hittite Syntax 100 Years Later: The Case of Hittite Indefinite Pronouns
  •   / Andrei V. Sideltsev
  • 17 Das unerwartete in der altassyrischen Nebenüberlieferung hethitischer Wörter
  •  / Zsolt Simon
  • 18 The Personal Deictic Function of Hittite / kāša, / kāšma and / kāšat(t)a : Further Evidence from the Texts
  •  / Charles W. Steitler
  • 19 Lycian / Erimñnuha
  •  / Jan Tavernier
  • 20 The Indo-European Feminine, the Neuter, and the Diagnostic Value of the τὰ ζῷα τρέχει rule in Greek and Anatolian
  •  / Annette Teffeteller
  • 21 Sidetisch – Ein Update zu Schrift und Sprache
  •  / Christian Zinko and Michaela Zinko
  • Part 3: The Hittites and Their Neighbors
  • 22 The LÚ.MEŠ SAG and Their Rise to Prominence
  •  / Tayfun Bilgin
  • 23 Virginity in Hittite Ritual
  •  / Billie Jean Collins
  • 24 Venus in Furs: Sappho fr. 101 Voigt between East and West
  •  / Alexander Dale
  • 25 A Problem of Meaning: Variations in Hittite Landscape as Narrated in the Sun-god’s / mugawar ( CTH 323)
  •  / Romina Della Casa
  • 26 „Fehler“ und Fehlschreibungen in hethitischen Texten
  •  / Susanne Görke
  • 27 Personennamen der hethitischen Großreichszeit als Quellen religiöser Verhältnisse
  •  / Manfred Hutter
  • 28 Die Gottheit Nikarawa in Karkamiš
  •  / Sylvia Hutter-Braunsar
  • 29 From Nerik to Emar
  •  / Patrick M. Michel
  • 30 The Last Foothold of Arzawa: The Problem of the Location of Puranda and Mount Arinnanda Revisited
  •  / Rostislav Oreshko
  • 31 Phrygia and the Near East
  •  / Maya Vassileva
  • 32 The Disappearance of Telipinu in the Context of Indo-European Myth
  •  / Roger D. Woodard
  • 33 Foreign Medical Knowledge in Ḫattuša: The Transmission and Reception of Mesopotamian Therapeutic Texts in the Hittite World
  •  / Valeria Zubieta Lupo
  • Index.
ISBN
90-04-41312-X
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  • 10.1163/9789004413122
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