Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1983. — 2nd rev. ed. — (Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten 29). — ISBN: 9783447023108. Edition (in transliteration) and commentary on twenty four Hittite birth rituals and several Luwian texts of similar content.
Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2019. — 112 p. — (Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplemental Series 6). From the late third millennium BCE on, the adventures of the hero Gilgamesh were well-known throughout Babylonia and Assyria, and the discovery of Akkadian-language fragments of versions of his tale at Boğazkoy, Ugarit, Emar, and Megiddo demonstrates that tales of the hero's exploits...
Edited by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. — Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1996. — xx, 206 p. — (Writings from the ancient world 7). — ISBN: 0788501542. "This work presents full translations of more than 50 documents from the files of the "foreign office" of the Hittite Empire: 20 treaties, 17 diplomatic letters, and 17 royal edicts and miscellaneous records concerning the relations of...
Paris: Adrien Maisonneuve, 1962. — 142 p. — (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique de l'Institut français d'Archéologie d'Istanbul. V). Etudes de linguistique historique sur la langue hittite. Ce volume rassemble une série d'études, la plupart inédites, relatives à la phonétique, à la morphologie et à la lexicologie du hittite En découvrant de nouvelles concordances...
Innsbruck: Institut fur Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1984. — 112 p. — (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 44). — ISBN: 3-85124-576-8. Foreword . Introduction : General background. Basic concepts. The hark- Construction – Preliminaries : Is hark- a Vollverbum or an auxiliary?. General observations. Old Hittite hark- Forms : Forms first attested in OH...
Innsbruck: Institut fur Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1993. — 262 p. — (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 79). — ISBN: 3-85124-644-6. Foreword . Introduction : The form of the particle. Previous scholarship. Middle forms with -za. The Texts. Verbs with -za : es- “be”; kis- ; da- ; es- “sit”; iya- ; mema- and verba dicendi ; aus- ; tama- ; verbs of...
Pavia: Gianni Iuculano editore, 1992. — vii, 353 p. — (Studia Mediterranea 7). — ISBN: 9788870722079. Boley J. The 'Local' Sentence Particles Boley J. The Hittite Periphrastic Constructions Carruba O. Le notazioni dell'agente animato nelle lingue anatoliche (e l'ergativo) Cotticelli-Kurras P. Die hethitischen Nominalsätze Hoffner H. A. Studies in the Hittite Panicles II: On...
Paris: Librairie Paul Geuthner, 1922. — vii, [1], 137, [3] p. Un résumé de l'histoire des études hittites où les oeuvres capitales citées dans le volume sont brièvement analysées. Written by French archeologist, orientalist and religious historian Georges Contenau, "Éléments de Bibliographie Hittite" is a scarce bibliography of writings on Hittite language and civilization. The...
Leuven: Katholieke universiteit te Leuven / Université catholique de Louvain, 1935. — 43 p. — (Philologische studiën. Teksten en verhandelingen; nr. 12). Couvreur assumes three laryngeal consonants for primitive Indo-European,' (= glottal stop), h (= laryngeal voiceless spirant), and γ (= laryngeal voiced spirant). The theory is, briefly, that ' had no effect upon the quality...
Paul Haupt, 1921. — 56 p. Neben dem reichen neuen archäologischen Material förderten die Grabungen auch' ein umfangreiches Tontafel-Archiv zu Tage. Es fanden sich darunter einige Urkunden in babylonisch-assyrischer (oder wie man jetzt lieber sagt, akkadischer) Sprache und Schrift; ihre Lesung und Deutung bot daher den keilschriftkundigen Semitisten keine ungewöhnlichen...
Praha: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2016. — 100 s. — ISBN: 978-80-7308-645-9. This introductory primer is intended to facilitate the frst stages of learning Hitite, encompassing basic information necessary to understand the intricacies of writing, transliteration and reconstruction (textual and archaeological) and interpretation of different types of texts, together...
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 1940. — XIV + 108 p. This classical work provides both an introduction and a reference tool to Hittite grammar, and has worked as the handbook for many Indo-Europeanists and Hittitologists until this day.
Linguistique Balkanique 25(3) - Izpatelstvo na bulgarskata akademiya na naukite, 1983 - Sofia - p. 5 - 28 Studies on various topics of Hittite linguistics, e.g. plene spelling.
Chicago, Illinois: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1991. — XVI + 99 p. — (Assyriological Studies №24). The Hittite Instruction for the Royal Bodyguard gives a long and detailed description of all the members of the king’s cortege from the moment he leaves the palace in the morning for a court procedure until his return later in the day. The text dates from...
Mythen von churritischen Kronos aus den hethitischen Fragmenten zusammengestellt, übersetzt und erklärt = Etice Kumbarbi efsanesi. — Zürich, New York: Europaverlag, 1946. — viii, 128+32 p.— (Istanbuler Schriften; Nr. 16). Critical edition and commentary on Hittite fragments featuring the story of Kumarbi.
Edited by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. — Chicago, Illinois: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1997. — XII + 274 p. — (Assyriological Studies №26). The thirty-three articles in this collection (originally published between 1948 and 1992) were chosen from the corpus of bibliographical items authored by Hans Gustav Güterbock over a span of more than sixty years. They...
Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1989. — (Texte der Hethiter; Heft 15.) — ISBN: 3533041522.1. Teil: Die Briefe unter ihren Kulturellen, sprachlichen und thematischen Gesichtspunkten. Part I presents a systematic analysis of Hittite official correspondence, both international/diplomatic and internal/administrative. By the very nature of the archives, little "private" material is to be...
Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1989. — (Texte der Hethiter; Heft 15.) — ISBN: 3533041522.2. Teil: Die Briefe mit Transkription, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Part II consists of the editions of the material on which the syntheses of Part I are based. With the exception of pitiful fragments, the great majority of Hittite letters in both Akkadian and Hittite language are transliterated, and...
2007. — 79 p. Die Keilschrift der Hethiter. Hethitisch lesen. Verben. Substantive. Logogramme, Determinativa und... Die Vergangenheit. ikel und Konjunktionen. Die Entschlüsselung des Hetitischen. Pronomina. Der Anitta-Text. Adjektive und Partizipien. Zahlen. Hethitische Gesetze. Ein Brief von Tutanchamuns Witwe. Lösungen zu den Aufgaben. Vokabeln. Verzeichnis der benutzten...
Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers Inc., 1988. — 237 p. Held W. H., Schmalstieg U. R., Hertz J. E. Fundamentals of the Hittite language (In English) The Nominal System. The Pronominal System. The Verbal System. Use of Cases. Particles and Conjunctions. Brief Syntactic Comments. Sumerian Expressions. Reading Selections. Glossaries: Hittite, Akkadian, Sumerian. Sign List....
Leiden; New York: Brill, 1997. — xx, 362 p. — (Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui, vol. 23). — ISBN: 9789004108745, 9004108742. The first critical edition of the Hittite laws since 1959, containing much new textual material. Presents manuscripts in the "score" format, distinguishing Old Hittite from later copies, and based upon a fresh collation of the original tablets....
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2002. — 218 p. — (Hittite Dictionary (Book 1)). — ISBN10: 1885923201, 13 978-1885923202. The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span (c. 1650-1180 b.c.) which witnessed the rise, the floruit, and...
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006. — 128 p. — (Hittite Dictionary (Book 2)). — ISBN10: 1885923376, 13 978-1885923370. The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span (c. 1650-1180 b.c.) which witnessed the rise, the floruit, and...
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2013. — 176 p. — (Hittite Dictionary (Book 3)). — ISBN10: 1885923953, 13 978-1885923950. The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span (ca. 1650-1180 B.C.) which witnessed the rise, the floruit, and...
Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2008. - 468 p. + 75 p. + 3 p. Part 1: Reference Grammar Part 2: Tutorial Hittite is the extinct language once spoken by the Hittites, a people who created an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia. The language is attested in cuneiform, in records from the 16th (Anitta text) down to the 13th century BC, with isolated Hittite loanwords and...
2nd Edition. — Eisenbrauns, 2024. — 710 p. — (Languages of the Ancient Near East). Since its publication in 2008, A Grammar of the Hittite Language has been the definitive Hittite reference and teaching tool. This new edition brings Hoffner and Melchert’s essential work up-to-date, incorporating the dramatic progress achieved in the field over the past fifteen years. Heavily...
Eisenbrauns, 2008. — 490 p. — (Languages of the Ancient Near East 1.1). Hoffner and Melchert’s long-awaited work is sure to become both the standard reference grammar and the main teaching tool for the Hittite language. The first volume includes a thorough description of Hittite grammar, grounded in an abundance of textual examples. Moreover, the authors take into account a...
Eisenbrauns, 2008. — 82 p. — (Languages of the Ancient Near East 1.2). Hoffner and Melchert’s long-awaited work is sure to become both the standard reference grammar and the main teaching tool for the Hittite language. The first volume includes a thorough description of Hittite grammar, grounded in an abundance of textual examples. Moreover, the authors take into account a vast...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 217 p. — ISBN: 978-0521133005 This is exciting and accessible new introductory course, which can be used in both trimester and semester systems, offers in ten lessons a comprehensive introduction to the grammar of the Hittite language, with ample exercises both in transliteration and in cuneiform. It includes a separate section of paradigms...
Buchhandlung Hinrichs'sche J.C., 1917. — 270 S. Die vorliegende Schrift stellt sich zur Aufgabe, das Wesen und den Bau der bisher rätselhaften Sprache der Hethiter festzustellen, die Sprache dieses Volkes zu entziffern. Hierbei wird es sich ergeben, daß das Hethitische in der Hauptsache eine indogermanische Sprache ist. Wir erhalten somit im Hethitischen eine neue, uralte...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 284 p. — ISBN: 019928198X. This book sets out to reconcile our picture of the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) verbal system with the evidence of Hittite and the other early Anatolian languages. The discovery that Hittite was an Indo-European (IE) language had dramatic consequences for our conception of the IE parent language. For most of the 20th...
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätverlag, 1968 – (Indogermanische Bibliothek. 3. Reihe, Untersuchungen) – 295 S. Inhalt: Vorwort. Zur Problemstellung und Entdeckung der arischen Glossen . Zur vorderorientalischen Seite der Arier-Frage, anknüpfend an Hippologia hethitica. 1961 . Synchronischer Uberblick . Anhang: Zur Diskussion um die hethitische Chronologie. Kassiten und Arier...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1961. — VIII, 375 S. Inhalt: Vorwort. Einleitung. Die Pferdetexte im Rahmen der vorderorientalischen Geschichte . Die hethitischen Trainingsanleitungen für Wagenpferde : Gruppierung der Texte und Fragmente . Text und Übersetzung : Der ,,Kikkuli-Text“: Vorbemerkungen. I = KUB I 13 + KUB II 12 b, c, KBO VIII 48, 53. II = KBo III 5 + IBoT II 136. III = KUB...
Wiesbaden: Harassowitz Verlag, 2014. — 716 p. “Über Art und Stelle des heth. Akzentes läßt sich nichts Sicheres ermitteln”. With this sombre statement, Kronasser starts the chapter “Betonung” in his Vergleichende Laut- und Formenlehre des Hethitischen (1956: 35). It is indeed true that, unlike other ancient Indo-European languages like Greek and Sanskrit, Hittite did not use...
Manuscript version, April 2018. — 295 p. In Kanišite Hittite Alwin Kloekhorst discusses the ethno-linguistic make-up of Kaniš (Central Anatolia, modern-day Kültepe), the most important Anatolian mercantile centre during the kārum-period (ca. 1970-1710 BCE), when Assyrian merchants dominated the trade in Anatolia. Especially by analysing the personal names of local individuals...
Brill, 2022. — 316 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1. The Near and Middle East 132). In Kanišite Hittite Alwin Kloekhorst offers a full account of the Hittite language spoken in Kaniš (Central Anatolia) during the kārum-period (ca. 1970-1710 BCE) by analyzing the personal names of local individuals attested in Old Assyrian documents from there.
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätverlag, 1956. — 292 p. Allgemeiner Teil Lautlehre Betonung Vokalismus Kosnonantismus Formenlehre Nomen Pronomen Numeralia Partikeln und Adverbia Verbum Die anatomischen Sprachen im Verhältnis zur idg. Grundsprache und zueinander Anhang Worindices
Manuskript. Diese Liste soll ein Hilfsmittel sein, um sich vor allem einen schnellen Überblick über die Chronologie der belegten Formen und Schreibungen zu verschaffen. Die entsprechenden Angaben sind weitestgehend entnommen aus: HW²; CHD; Oettinger 1979; Kloekhorst 2008. Die Liste ist nicht vollständig und wird ständig aktualisiert.
École pratique des hautes études, 1954. — 20 p. Cependant cette interprétation se heurte à des obstacles insurmontables A. priori, il est invraisemblable qu'un nom régulièrement écrit à l'aide de l'idéogramme DIEU et du complément phonétique -na- (signes na, nâ ou nà) se présente tout à coup sous la forme étrange DIEU-a-â-s : que serait cette désinence -a-à-s? Et en effet, le...
Publisher: École pratique des hautes études Publication date: 1964 Number of pages: 28 A la difference du latin et du grec, le Hittite, comme les autres langues du Proche-Orient antique, a été tire du néant. Courant au plus pressé, les premiers déchiffreurs ont mis tous leurs soins à restaurer la grammaire et à traduire les textes, vaille que vaille.
2008. - 113 p. The outline of grammar presented here is inspired from the Hethitisches Elementarbuch by Johannes Friedrich. However, it is not an exact translation of this book. I have nevertheless used his examples, his tables of the different paradigms and his numbering of the classes of verbs (referenced in the lexicon). I have deviated from the usual rules of transcription...
München, Newcastle: Lincom Europa, 1997. - 75 p. Hittite belongs to the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, which has become extinct in the first half of the first millenium b.C. Among the Anatolian languages Hittite is the best attested; for our knowledge of it we can relay on several thousands of clay tables, dating back to about 1750 b.C. - 1150 b.C. One...
Videnskapsselskapets Skrifter, 1918. — 192 p. Ce n'est point sans une forte hésitation que je publie le present travail. Dans des temps normaux, il n'aurait pas vu le jour ainsi constitué. Sans la guerre j'aurais préféré attendre la production des textes d'après lesquels M. Friderich Hrozny a écrit son Sprache der Hethiter. Il est évident en effet que toute appréciation...
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013. — xxi, 451 p. — (Writings from the Ancient World 31). — ISBN: 9781589837690. Edition and translation of selected Hittite administrative texts. OLD KINGDOM SOURCES A Royal Reprimand of the Dignitaries (CTH 272) Instructions and Oath Imposition for Royal Servants concerning the Purity of the King (CTH 265) Protocol for the Palace...
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1980. — xxiii + 250 p. + 2 Tables. — (Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten 25). — ISBN: 3-447-02042-3. As Harry H. Hoffner has written in Orientalia 58, StBoT 25 is a collection in transliteration of all cult texts, what Hittitologists usually call "festival texts", which show one of the two varieties of what is called "Old Script". It was needed in...
Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten (StBoT) 6. — Harrassowitz, 1968. — XIV + 208 p. In this second installment of Neu's treatment of the Hittite middle, he presents a historical-comparative analysis of the Hittite middle and its development from Proto-Indo-European.
Nürnberg: Carl, 1979. — xvii, 636 p. — (Erlanger Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kunstwissenschaft 64). — ISBN: 9783418000640. A magisterial treatment of Hittite verbal stems. The file includes the author's "Vorwort zum Nachdruck mit Revision der Verbalklassen" from the otherwise unchanged edition that came out in 2002 in the series Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitilogie (vol. 7).
De Gruyter, 1958. — 160 p. — (Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Orientforschung 37). Inhalt. Vorwort. Einleitung. Textübersicht. Inhaltsübersicht. Die Texte zum Totenritual. Philologischer Kommentar. Indices. Abkürzungsverzeichnis.
København: Levin & Munksgaard, 1938. — (Historisk-filologiske meddelelser; 25:2). Morphologie der Nomina; die Pronomina; Flexion der Verba; die Stammklassen der H-Konjugation; die Stammklassen der M-Konjugation; die Präverbia; die Negationen.
Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2011. — 242 p. — (Lehrbücher orientalischer Sprachen I, Cuneiform Languages, vol. 2). — ISBN: 9783868350647. A textbook of Hittite in German with selections from original texts, exercises (including cuneiform practice) and answers.
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999. — 608 S. — (Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten, Heft 44). — ISBN: 9783447040334. Historical and comparative study of several classes of nominal stems in Hittite: root nouns, -t-, -s-, -h2-, -r-, -l- and -r-/-n-stems. Vorwort Abkürzungsverzeichnis Einleitung Wurzelnomina Die urindogermanischen Grundlagen. I. Geschlechtige Wurzelnomina. II. Neutrale...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1989. — 388 S. — (Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten (StBoT) Beiheft 2). Complete sign list of the cuneiform signs used in Hittite sources, with palaeographic variants, sign values and meanings, along with inventories and indices.
Herausgegeben von Andreas Müller-Karpe, Elisabeth Rieken und Walter Sommerfeld – Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. — XI, 316 S. — (Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten, 58). — ISBN: 978-3-447-10365-7. Inhalt: Vorwortz Fast ein Saeculum. Alfonso Archi , How the Anitta text reached Hattusa. Gary Beckman , The Sea! The Sea! A Rite from the South of Anatolia (CTH 719). Alexandra...
Publisher: THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY Publication date: 1907 Number of pages: 94 This important document is part of a large tablet of fine clay, well baked, and of a reddish colour, inscribed with 45 more or less complete lines of writing on the obverse and 49 similar lines of writing on the reverse. The characters are small, being only about 2*5 mm. high, hence this large...
Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002. — xv, 141 p. — ISBN: 9781589830325. Edition and translation of selected Hittite prayers. Early invocations: Invocation of the sun-goddess of the netherworld against slander (CTH 371) Invocation of the sun-god and the storm-god against slander (CTH 389.2) Invocation of the sun-goddess of Arinna for the protection of the royal...
Philadelphia: Linguistic Society of America, University of Pennsylvania, 1933. — 320 p. The task of interpreting the Hittite texts is still far from completion. Many of them are not yet published, and a considerable proportion of those that have been published are only imperfectly understood. Even where our comprehension seems relatively satisfactory we are still frequently...
2nd, revised edition. — New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. — XX + 199 p. The last seventeen years have seen great improvements in our understanding of the Hittite texts, in our knowledge of the grammatical structure of the language, and in our comprehension of the other Anatolian languages. The first two lines of improvement have gone so far that a new treatment of Hittite...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 208 p. ISBN13: 978-0-511-39353-2 eBook (EBL) ISBN13: 978-0-521-68496-5 paperback This book describes the ancient languages of Asia Minor, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of a language, and places that language within...
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