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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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Author:   Ronald I. Kim ,  Jana Mynářová ,  Peter Pavúk
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   107
Weight:   1.195kg
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9789004413115

ISBN 10:   9004413111
Pages:   678
Publication Date:   09 January 2020
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Format:   Hardback
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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/fduttarii̯ata/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 *steh2- ‘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

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Ronald I. Kim, Ph.D. (2002), University of Pennsylvania, is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. He is author of over 60 articles, mainly on the historical grammar of Indo-European languages, and coeditor of Indo-European Linguistics (Brill). Jana Mynářová, Ph.D. (2004), Charles University, Prague, is Associate Professor in the Czech Institute of Egyptology at that university. She specializes in the relations between Egypt and the Ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium BC and is author of Language of Amarna – Language of Diplomacy. Perspectives on the Amarna Letters (2007). Peter Pavúk, Ph.D. (2006), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, Charles University, Prague. He has published several monographs and edited volumes, as well as articles on the Aegean and Anatolian Bronze Age, most notably on the site of Troy.

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