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Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Volume I: Inscriptions of the Iron Age

By John David Hawkins

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2000
ISBN
311010864X, 9783110108644
Google Books ID
yZKJq5A6drwC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
87 MB (91052869 bytes)
Series
Untersuchungen zur indogermanischen Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft, n.F., 8.1
Pages
1066\1066
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-01-06 17:59:42

Description

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.

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