The Tablet and its Scribe: Between Archival and Scribal Spaces in Late Empire Period Ḫattusa
Abstract
This study explores the personal copyist statement in the tablet colophons, the scribes who appear in them and the tablets’ findspots in order to demonstrate the relationships between text, scribe and the scholarly work environment of Ḫattusa in the late Empire period (second half of the 13th cent. BC). It is initially demonstrated how Hittite scribal statements were appended to specific types of texts and had a recurring structure that reflects their purpose. A look at festivals follows. Two large Hittite festivals, the ḫišuwa and AN.TAḪ.ŠUMSAR, were both prepared by scholars related to or working under Walwaziti, the chief scribe of Ḫattusili III, and his family. However, at some point, perhaps during the reign of Tudḫaliya IV, the complex work on the AN.TAḪ.ŠUMSAR festival came under the authority of another scribal group, that of Anuwanza. In this context it is also considered whether certain shelf lists may have been accounts of tablets removed from an archival section.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Seeking a Political Space: Thoughts on the Formative Stage of Hittite Administration in Syria
- The Tablet and its Scribe: Between Archival and Scribal Spaces in Late Empire Period Ḫattusa
- L’écriture de l’espace : la perception de l’espace dans l’écriture hiéroglyphique anatolienne
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- The Genealogy of Suppiluliuma I
- One-year or Five-year War? A Reappraisal of Suppiluliuma’s First Syrian Campaign
- Ališarruma, König von Išuwa
- Duplikate und Anschlüsse zu hethitischen Mythen und Gebeten
- The Meter of Hurrian Narrative Song
- Akkadian Terms for Streets and the Topography of Mesopotamian Cities
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