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The Haus am Hang at Ḫattuša : a late Hittite state scriptorium and its tablet collections / Giulia Torri.

By: Torri, Giulia, 1972- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten ; Heft 67.Publisher: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022Description: xvi, 305 pages : illustrations, map, plans ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783447116213; 3447116218Subject(s): Hittite language -- Texts | Inscriptions, Hittite -- Turkey | Cuneiform inscriptions | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Turkey | Inscriptions cunéiformes | Cuneiform inscriptions | Excavations (Archaeology) | Hittite language | Inscriptions, Hittite | TurkeyGenre/Form: TextsAdditional physical formats: e-book version: No titleLOC classification: P945 | .S65 2022
Contents:
Introduction and history of research -- Part I: The context -- 1. The excavation area L/18 and the find-spots of the texts -- 2. Dating the texts of the Haus am Hang -- 3. Colophons and scribes -- 4. A catalogue of epigraphic finds according to their find-spots -- 5. The Haus am Hang as scriptorium -- 6. The layout of the tables -- 7. A center of economic and religious administration? -- 8. Chancellery texts 9. Texts of the scribal tradition -- 10. Conclusion.
Summary: During the first excavations in Lower City of ?attu?a, conducted by H. Winckler and Th. Makridi in 1907, Makridi discovered a palace built east of the main Temple. The building was later named Haus am Hang (House on the Slope, HaH) because it leaned on the terraces leading up to the royal palace on Büyükkale. Several fragments of clay tablets in cuneiform script were discovered within and around the building during this period and in the following archaeological investigations until the 1960s. These text fragments exemplified the various text typologies produced by Hittite scribes.0Giulia Torri?s research focuses on this collection of texts in search of the original criteria for its organization inside the building and provides a new approach in outlining the cultural environment in which the Hittite texts were produced: As a first step, the range of information about the discovery and the find-spots of the fragments is analyzed and contextualised (Part I). In the second part the texts, classified according to their content as administrative texts, chancellery texts, and texts of the scribal tradition, are collected, studied, and compared with their duplicate versions from other locations, with the aim of showing how the Hittite scribes composed and preserved them in this area of the Lower City (Part II).0.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-289) and indexes.

Introduction and history of research -- Part I: The context -- 1. The excavation area L/18 and the find-spots of the texts -- 2. Dating the texts of the Haus am Hang -- 3. Colophons and scribes -- 4. A catalogue of epigraphic finds according to their find-spots -- 5. The Haus am Hang as scriptorium -- 6. The layout of the tables -- 7. A center of economic and religious administration? -- 8. Chancellery texts 9. Texts of the scribal tradition -- 10. Conclusion.

During the first excavations in Lower City of ?attu?a, conducted by H. Winckler and Th. Makridi in 1907, Makridi discovered a palace built east of the main Temple. The building was later named Haus am Hang (House on the Slope, HaH) because it leaned on the terraces leading up to the royal palace on Büyükkale. Several fragments of clay tablets in cuneiform script were discovered within and around the building during this period and in the following archaeological investigations until the 1960s. These text fragments exemplified the various text typologies produced by Hittite scribes.0Giulia Torri?s research focuses on this collection of texts in search of the original criteria for its organization inside the building and provides a new approach in outlining the cultural environment in which the Hittite texts were produced: As a first step, the range of information about the discovery and the find-spots of the fragments is analyzed and contextualised (Part I). In the second part the texts, classified according to their content as administrative texts, chancellery texts, and texts of the scribal tradition, are collected, studied, and compared with their duplicate versions from other locations, with the aim of showing how the Hittite scribes composed and preserved them in this area of the Lower City (Part II).0.