Hrozný and Hittite

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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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

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