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Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 13:51:36
From: Krista Zimmer [krista at isdistribution.com]
Subject: Hittite Scribal Circles: Gordin
Title: Hittite Scribal Circles
Subtitle: Scholarly Tradition and Writing Habits
Series Title: Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten, 59
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
http://www.isdistribution.com
Book URL: http://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=71821
Author: Shai Gordin
Hardback: ISBN: 9783447105262 Pages: 461 Price: U.S. $ 119.00
Abstract:
Similarly to monks in medieval scriptoria, learned Hittite scholars spent the
majority of their time in rooms or halls (and sometimes courtyards), copying,
in Hittite cuneiform, different texts onto clay. Many scribes formulated
distinct colophons for the manuscripts they produced. The analysis of the
information on different scribes, their colleagues, family members, copying
work, bureaus and writing habits present in the manuscripts is at the center
of Shai Godin's study. The book opens with a useful introduction to the
various aspects of Hittite scholarly culture, especially in the Hittite
capital of Hattusa, to its archives, to text genres, tablet types and writing
medium, aspects of layout, reading, and writing. The author then identifies
the personal signatures of more than 60 scribes on about 130 manuscripts.
Beside names, the signatures contain titles and kinship affiliations, which
enables him to relate the production of specific manuscripts to a certain
scribal office, family, or school. Due to the isolation of the idiosyncratic
elements of more than 40 signed manuscripts compared with hundreds of
photographed cuneiform signs, the study approaches the Hittite scribes from a
genuinely fresh perspective and creates a kind of reference guide for Hittite
writing traditions of the 13th century BCE, which are otherwise difficult to
be dated or identified. The main results of this research clarify the
transmission of certain textual traditions and recurrent graphic and
orthographical conventions within specific scribal schools or families in the
course of time. (Harrassowitz Verlag 2015)
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Writing Systems
Subject Language(s): Hittite (hit)
Language Family(ies): Indo-European
Written In: English (eng)
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