2018/2019

2018/2019

DM270

L-OR/04 (ANATOLIAN STUDIES)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES

Orientalistico

1°

1st semester (24/09/2018 - 09/01/2019)

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 prayers: reading from the cuneiform and philological discussion of selected passages from Hittite prayers.

Lectures and seminars.

Part A)
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.

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)
I. Singer, Hittite Prayers, Atlanta, Georgia 2002.
The texts to be read during the course and further specific bibliography will be provided in class.

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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