Ḫatti and Ḫattuša
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Adam Kryszeń
Abstract
The article addresses long-standing but still pertinent questions regarding the two most frequent toponyms in Hittite texts: Ḫatti and Ḫattuša. The first question concerns the exact meaning of each name. Was Ḫatti the Akkadian name for Ḫattuša, as is widely (although not universally) held, or are both originally Hittite names? If the former view is adopted, then subsequent questions naturally arise, namely: What is the origin of the name Ḫatti? And how did it come to be used by the Hittites?
In order to deal with these issues, all attestations of both toponyms have been collected and analyzed statistically, taking various criteria into consideration: the dating and language of the texts mentioning Ḫatti and Ḫattuša, the determinatives, and the immediate context of the attestations.
Acknowledgements
This article and the conference paper it has been based on, presented at the “Hrozný and Hittite: The First Hundred Years” Conference in November 2015, Prague, were made possible thanks to a grant received from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw (202689/E-343/M/2015). I would like to express my gratitude to the people who offered their help and shared their ideas (on the topic) with me: Joost Blasweiler, Stephen Durnford, Max Gander, Guido Kryszat. I would like to thank Piotr Taracha for reading a draft version of this paper and Joost Hazenbos for a number of valuable corrections and remarks.
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- Siedlungskammer Kilikien
- A Comparative Stratigraphy of Cilicia
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- In Defense of Nebuchadnezzar II the Warrior
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