2016/2017

2017/2018

DM270

L-OR/04 (ANATOLIAN STUDIES)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

GIORGIERI MAURO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Basic knowledge of the Hittite language and cuneiform script. Students must have attended the course of Hittitology.

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. At the end of the course the student should be able to read from the cuneiform a text in Hittite language and critically analyze its linguistic and palaeographic features.

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 palaeographic and linguistic dating of Hittite texts

B) Reading and discussion of a selection of Hittite texts in cuneiform script.
Hittite juridical-administrative texts: reading from the cuneiform and philological discussion of selected juridical and administrative Hittite texts (royal instructions, loyalty oaths, edicts).

Lectures and seminars.

Part A)
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 (StBoT 51), 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.

Th. van den Hout “The Ductus of the Alalah VII Texts and the Origin of Hittite Cuneiform.” In: E. Devecchi (ed.), Palaeography and Scribal Practices in Syro-Palestine and Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age: Papers Read at a Symposium in Leiden 17–18 December 2009 (PIHANS CXIX), Leiden 2012, 147–170.

M. Cammarosano, "3D-Joins und Schriftmetrologie. A Quantitative Approach to Cuneiform Palaeography", in: E. Devecchi, G.G.W. Müller, J. Mynářová (eds.), Current Research in Cuneiform Palaeography (Proceedings of the Workshop organised at the 60ᵗʰ Rencontre
Assyriologique Internationale Warsaw 2014), Gladbeck 2015, 145-186.


M. Weeden, "Hittite Scribal Culture and Syria: Palaeography and Cuneiform Transmission.' In: D. Shibata, Sh. Yamada (eds.), Cultures and Societies in the Middle Euphrates and Habur Areas in the Second Millennium BC – I Scribal Education and Scribal Traditions. Wiesbaden 2016, 159-193.

Part B)
J.L. Miller, Royal Hittite Instructions and Related Administrative Texts (Writings from the Ancient World 31), Atlanta 2013.

Oral examination: a question on the general introduction; reading from cuneiform, translation and comment upon a text read in class; reading from cuneiform, translation and comment upon a text beyond the class curriculum, to be decided with the teacher.

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