ANATOLIAN PHILOLOGY (CUNEIFORM TEXTS)
Stampa
Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic year
2016/2017
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
L-OR/04 (ANATOLIAN STUDIES)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
1st semester (26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
ITALIAN
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
GIORGIERI MAURO (titolare) - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
None
Learning outcomes
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.
Course contents
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 myths of Hurrian origin
- Introduction to Hittite myhtology
- Reading from the cuneiform and philological discussion of selected texts from the "Song of Emergence", "Song of Ullikummi", "Song of Hedammu", "Song of Release".
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.
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars
Reccomended or required readings
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)
H.A. Hoffner, Hittite Myths (2nd ed.), Atlanta, Georgia 1998.

Further bibliography on Hittite myths will be given during classes.

- The set texts for classes will be distributed on fotocopies in class.
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Further information
Nothing
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