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In Royal Circles: The Nature of Hittite Scholarship

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Abstract

This essay advocates a distinction between scribal craftsmen and scholar-scribes, the latter mostly coming from the elite circles of the kingdom and increasingly, as their career advanced, involved in scholarly endeavors rather than tablet production. It is these scholars who were probably also responsible for the so-called tablet inventories (“catalogs”).

Acknowledgments

I am most grateful to Seth Richardson for his very valuable remarks and suggestions and to Hannah Marcuson for correcting my English. I alone remain responsble for any mistakes and the views expressed here.

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