Format:
Online-Ressource (XXXIX, 639 S.)
ISBN:
9783110804201
Series Statement:
Untersuchungen zur indogermanischen Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft. NF / Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture. New Series 8.1
Content:
This is an edition of the Hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Late Hittite states of Turkey and Syria. These inscriptions, surviving largely on stone, include monuments of kings to their reigns and works as well as the humbler memorials of subordinates. A few precious survivals of documents in the form of lead strips give us a different type of document: letters and economic texts. Recent discoveries have improved the decipherment and understanding of these inscriptions to a point where new and comprehensive translations can be offered, and the presentation of this in English will make them available for the first time to the wide audience of the English-speaking world. At the same time we are in a position to present more reliable texts than those which have appeared in editions hitherto regarded as standard.
Content:
Review text: "The work is as flawless as a book can be and beautifully executed."Theo van den Hout in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 1-2/2006
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110108644
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-11-010864-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110804201
URL:
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Author information:
Hawkins, John David 1940-