2015/2016

2015/2016

DM270

L-OR/04 (ANATOLIAN STUDIES)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES

STORICO-ORIENTALISTICO

1°

1st semester (21/09/2015 - 23/12/2015)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

GIORGIERI MAURO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

None

The aim of the course is to have the students better acquainted with Hittite and cuneiform script and with the methodological issues of the Hittite philology.

A) General introduction
Through a series of introductory lectures the first part of the course deals with the following topics:

- the origin of the cuneiform script in Hittite Anatolia
- the problems of paleographic and linguistic dating of Hittite texts

B) Hittite ritual texts
- Introduction to Hittite rituals
- Reading from the cuneiform and philological discussion of selected Hittite ritual texts.
In this parte of the course preparation for classes is required and will include the study of passages from the set texts for reading in class.

Lectures and seminars

Part A)
K. Hecker, "Zur Herkunft der hethitischen Keilschrift", SCCNH 8 (1996), 291-303.

J. Klinger, "Wer lehrte die Hethiter das Schreiben? Zur Paläographie früher Texte in akkadischer Sprache aus Boghazköy: Skizze einiger Überlegungen und vorläufiger Ergebnisse", in: 3HitCongr, Ankara 1998, 365-375.

H.C. Melchert, "Middle Hittite Revisited", in: 6HitCongr 2, Roma 2008, 525-531.

Th. van den Hout, "A Century of Hittite Text Dating and the Origins of the Hittite Cuneiform Script", Incontri Linguistici 32 (2009), 12-35.

Th. van den Hout, "Reflections on the Origins and Development of the Hittite Tablet Collections in Hattusa and Their Consequences for the Rise of the Hittite Literacy", in: Studia Asiana 5, Roma 2009, 72-96.

Th. van den Hout, "The Rise and Fall of Cuneiform Script in Hittite Anatolia", in: Visible Language, Chicago 2010, 99-106.

A. Archi, "When Did the Hittites Begin to Write in Hittite?", in: Fs. Singer, Wiesbaden 2010, 37-46.

G. Wilhelm, "Remarks on the Hittite Cuneiform Script", in: Fs. Hawkins, Tel Aviv 2010, 256-262.

M. Weeden, Hittite Logograms and Hittite Scholarship (StBoT 54), Wiesbaden 2011.

Part B)
- J. Miller, Studies in the Origin, Development and Interpretation of the Kizzuwatna Rituals (StBoT 46), Wiesbaden 2004.
Further bibliography on Hittite rituals will be given during classes.

- The set texts for classes will be distributed on fotocopies in class.

Oral examination

Oral examination