Hittite scribal circles: scholarly tradition and writing habits
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Bibliographical Abbreviations -- General Abbreviations -- Technical Sigla -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Hittite Writing Tradition and Scholarly Text Production -- 1.2 A Study of Late Empir...
| Summary: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Bibliographical Abbreviations -- General Abbreviations -- Technical Sigla -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Hittite Writing Tradition and Scholarly Text Production -- 1.2 A Study of Late Empire Scribes and Their Habits: Questions and Goals -- 1.3 Approaching the Text Corpus -- 1.3.1 Hittite Manuscripts: Storage, Form and Consumption -- 1.3.1.1 Tablet Find-spots and Archival and Scribal Spaces in Ḫattuša -- 1.3.1.2 Diplomatics of Hittite Manuscripts 1.3.1.3 Tablet Medium: Genres on Clay, Wood, and Metal -- 1.3.1.4 Layout: Tablet Shapes, Columns, and Paragraphs -- 1.3.1.5 How Layout Relates to Generic Language and Composition -- 1.3.1.6 Reading and Performance -- 1.3.2 Colophons and Incipits -- 1.3.3 The Personal Scribal Annotation -- 2 The Corpus of Personal Scribal Annotations and Its Analytical Framework -- 2.1 General Remarks on the Corpus and Its Presentation -- 2.2 A List of Empire Period Manuscripts with Scribal Signatures -- 2.3 Methods of Analysis and Perspectives on Previous Research 2.3.1 Generic Classification: Modern Categories for Ancient Manuscripts -- 2.3.2 Prosopography: Reconstructing Social Institutions -- 2.3.3 Palaeography and Orthography in the Study of Scribal Habits -- 3 Tracing Hittite Technical "Authorship" and Scribal Specialisation -- 3.1 Scribal Onomastics and the Empire Period Rise in Literacy -- 3.2 Old and Middle Hittite Signed Manuscripts -- 3.3 Signed Manuscripts from the Late Empire Period -- 3.4 Scribal Selection? Thoughts on the Function of Hittite Shelf-lists -- 3.5 Conclusions: Signatures, Authorship, and Scribal Specialisation 4 Hittite Scribes: Scholar and Expert Titles, Work Relations, and Training -- 4.1 The Scribe, His Titles, and His Affiliations -- 4.1.1 The Writer's Statement: Form and Function -- 4.1.2 The Apprentice (gáb.zu.zu) -- 4.1.2.1 Apprentices Arranged According to Teachers -- 4.1.2.2 Scribal Apprenticeship and the Position of Teachers -- 4.2 The Witnessing Authority: Duties and Titles -- 4.3 Scribes as Medical Experts -- 4.4 Scribes in Hieroglyphic Sources -- 4.5 Conclusions: Towards a Hierarchy of the Hittite Literate Classes -- 5 Late Empire Period Scribal Circles and Their "Scriptoria 5.1 The Scribal Circle of Walwaziti gal dub.sar(meš) -- 5.1.1 Mittannamuwa gal dub.sar(meš), Father of Walwaziti, and His Family -- 5.1.2 Walwaziti's ḫišuwa Festival and Other Scribal Projects -- 5.1.2.1 The Two-columned Version of the ḫišuwa -- 5.1.3 Instructors Affiliated with Walwaziti -- 5.1.4 Büyükkale Building A: Walwaziti's "Scriptorium"? -- 5.2 Scribal Circles of Anuwanza dub.sar, lúsag, and en uruNerik -- 5.2.1 Scribal Authority and Coordination between Circles -- 5.2.2 Anuwanza's Career and Family Circle -- 5.2.2.1 Evaluating Anuwanza's Early Work 5.2.2.2 Tummani and […]: Sons of Anuwanza |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 3447105267 |