About the Old Hittite and early Middle Hittite scripts

• Authors: Popko M.
• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The Old Hittite and early Middle Hittite scripts are very similar, consequently, documents in those scripts cannot be precisely dated. The date of two texts commonly considered to be Old Hittite compositions is disputable, due to the presence of dU instead of expected older dISKUR (the name of the Storm-God). This younger form reflects Hurrian/north-Syrian cultural influence in the Middle Hittite period. In search of the beginning of this influence, stages of development of the Middle Hittite script are discussed, and documents relating to those stages are quoted. It is revealed, in conclusion, that the oldest compositions of Hurrian origin most likely belong to the second phase of the Middle Hittite script. Those compositions appeared in the northern Anatolian area presumably in the time of Tuthalija I. At that time, the Old Hittite script was still in use in parallel with the Midddle Hittite script.

Keywords

EN

MIDDLE HITTITE SCRIPTS; OLD HITTITE SCRIPTS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 9-13
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Popko M.

• M. Popko, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Orientalistyczny, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA01914090