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Hrozný and Hittite
The First Hundred Years
Series: - Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 107
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 BedÅich Hroznýâs identification of Hittite as an Indo-European language. Contributions are grouped into three sections, âHrozný and His Discoveries,â âHittite and Indo-European,â and âThe Hittites and Their Neighbors,â 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.
Ronald I. Kim, Ph.D. (2002), University of Pennsylvania, is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, PoznaÅ. He is author of over 60 articles, mainly on the historical grammar of Indo-European languages, and coeditor of Indo-European Linguistics (Brill).
Jana MynáÅová, 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 â 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.
Jana MynáÅová, 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 â 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.
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Hroznýâs Excavations at Kültepe and the Resurrection of a Bronze Age Palace
âGojko Barjamovic
2 Hroznýâs Excavations, 1924â1925: Sheikh Saâad, Tell Erfad
âJan Bouzek
3 Hrozný and the Decipherment of Hieroglyphic Luwian
âJ.D. Hawkins
4 BedÅich Hrozný and the Aegean Writing Systems: An Early Decipherment Attempt
âArtemis 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
âRegine Pruzsinszky
6 Consonant Clusters, Defective Notation of Vowels and Syllable Structure in Caromemphite
âIgnasi-Xavier Adiego
7 Tagging and Searching the Hittite Corpus
âDita FrantÃková
8 The Phonetics and Phonology of the Hittite Dental Stops
âAlwin Kloekhorst
9 Ãber die hethitische 3. Sg. Präsens auf -ia-Iz-zi
âMartin Joachim Kümmel
10 The Word for Wine in Anatolian, Greek, Armenian, Italic, Etruscan, Semitic and Its Indo-European Origin
âReiner Lipp
11 Satzanfänge im Hethitischen
âRosemarie Lühr
12 Hittite Historical Phonology after 100 Years (and after 20 Years)
âH. Craig Melchert
13 MUNUS/fduttarii̯ata/i- and Some Other Indo-European Maidens
âVeronika Milanova
14 One Century of Heteroclitic Inflection
âGeorges-Jean Pinault
15 From Experiential Contact to Abstract Thought: Reflections on Some Hittite Outcomes ofPIE *steh2- âto standâ and *men- âto thinkâ
âMarianna Pozza
16 Hittite Syntax 100 Years Later: The Case of Hittite Indefinite Pronouns
âAndrei V. Sideltsev
17 Das unerwartete in der altassyrischen Nebenüberlieferung hethitischer Wörter
âZsolt Simon
18 The Personal Deictic Function of Hittite kÄÅ¡a, kÄÅ¡ma and kÄÅ¡at(t)a: Further Evidence from the Texts
âCharles W. Steitler
19 Lycian Erimñnuha
âJan Tavernier
20 The Indo-European Feminine, the Neuter, and the Diagnostic Value of the Ïá½° ζῷα ÏÏÎÏει rule in Greek and Anatolian
âAnnette Teffeteller
21 Sidetisch â Ein Update zu Schrift und Sprache
âChristian Zinko and Michaela Zinko
22 The LÃ.MEÅSAG and Their Rise to Prominence
âTayfun Bilgin
23 Virginity in Hittite Ritual
âBillie Jean Collins
24 Venus in Furs: Sappho fr. 101 Voigt between East and West
âAlexander Dale
25 A Problem of Meaning: Variations in Hittite Landscape as Narrated in the Sun-godâs mugawar (CTH 323)
âRomina Della Casa
26 âFehlerâ und Fehlschreibungen in hethitischen Texten
âSusanne Görke
27 Personennamen der hethitischen GroÃreichszeit als Quellen religiöser Verhältnisse
âManfred Hutter
28 Die Gottheit Nikarawa in Karkamiš
âSylvia Hutter-Braunsar
29 From Nerik to Emar
âPatrick M. Michel
30 The Last Foothold of Arzawa: The Problem of the Location of Puranda and Mount Arinnanda Revisited
âRostislav Oreshko
31 Phrygia and the Near East
âMaya Vassileva
32 The Disappearance of Telipinu in the Context of Indo-European Myth
âRoger D. Woodard
33 Foreign Medical Knowledge in Ḫattuša: The Transmission and Reception of Mesopotamian Therapeutic Texts in the Hittite World
âValeria Zubieta Lupo
Index
Introduction
Part 1: Hrozný and His Discoveries
1 Hroznýâs Excavations at Kültepe and the Resurrection of a Bronze Age Palace
âGojko Barjamovic
2 Hroznýâs Excavations, 1924â1925: Sheikh Saâad, Tell Erfad
âJan Bouzek
3 Hrozný and the Decipherment of Hieroglyphic Luwian
âJ.D. Hawkins
4 BedÅich Hrozný and the Aegean Writing Systems: An Early Decipherment Attempt
âArtemis 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
âRegine Pruzsinszky
Part 2: Hittite and Indo-European
6 Consonant Clusters, Defective Notation of Vowels and Syllable Structure in Caromemphite
âIgnasi-Xavier Adiego
7 Tagging and Searching the Hittite Corpus
âDita FrantÃková
8 The Phonetics and Phonology of the Hittite Dental Stops
âAlwin Kloekhorst
9 Ãber die hethitische 3. Sg. Präsens auf -ia-Iz-zi
âMartin Joachim Kümmel
10 The Word for Wine in Anatolian, Greek, Armenian, Italic, Etruscan, Semitic and Its Indo-European Origin
âReiner Lipp
11 Satzanfänge im Hethitischen
âRosemarie Lühr
12 Hittite Historical Phonology after 100 Years (and after 20 Years)
âH. Craig Melchert
13 MUNUS/fduttarii̯ata/i- and Some Other Indo-European Maidens
âVeronika Milanova
14 One Century of Heteroclitic Inflection
âGeorges-Jean Pinault
15 From Experiential Contact to Abstract Thought: Reflections on Some Hittite Outcomes of
âMarianna Pozza
16 Hittite Syntax 100 Years Later: The Case of Hittite Indefinite Pronouns
âAndrei V. Sideltsev
17 Das unerwartete in der altassyrischen Nebenüberlieferung hethitischer Wörter
âZsolt Simon
18 The Personal Deictic Function of Hittite kÄÅ¡a, kÄÅ¡ma and kÄÅ¡at(t)a: Further Evidence from the Texts
âCharles W. Steitler
19 Lycian Erimñnuha
âJan Tavernier
20 The Indo-European Feminine, the Neuter, and the Diagnostic Value of the Ïá½° ζῷα ÏÏÎÏει rule in Greek and Anatolian
âAnnette Teffeteller
21 Sidetisch â Ein Update zu Schrift und Sprache
âChristian Zinko and Michaela Zinko
Part 3: The Hittites and Their Neighbors
22 The LÃ.MEÅ
âTayfun Bilgin
23 Virginity in Hittite Ritual
âBillie Jean Collins
24 Venus in Furs: Sappho fr. 101 Voigt between East and West
âAlexander Dale
25 A Problem of Meaning: Variations in Hittite Landscape as Narrated in the Sun-godâs mugawar (
âRomina Della Casa
26 âFehlerâ und Fehlschreibungen in hethitischen Texten
âSusanne Görke
27 Personennamen der hethitischen GroÃreichszeit als Quellen religiöser Verhältnisse
âManfred Hutter
28 Die Gottheit Nikarawa in Karkamiš
âSylvia Hutter-Braunsar
29 From Nerik to Emar
âPatrick M. Michel
30 The Last Foothold of Arzawa: The Problem of the Location of Puranda and Mount Arinnanda Revisited
âRostislav Oreshko
31 Phrygia and the Near East
âMaya Vassileva
32 The Disappearance of Telipinu in the Context of Indo-European Myth
âRoger D. Woodard
33 Foreign Medical Knowledge in Ḫattuša: The Transmission and Reception of Mesopotamian Therapeutic Texts in the Hittite World
âValeria Zubieta Lupo
Index
All interested in Hittite, Anatolian, and Indo-European linguistics; Hittite society, religion, and relations with other Ancient Near Eastern cultures; as well as the contributions of BedÅich Hrozný.