13766a
Reading Course
(Lk) Hettite - People, Environment, Cultural arena
Prof. Dr. Jörg Klinger
Information for students
Prerequisite for participation: Knowledge of Hittite, attendance of the course ‘Introduction to Hittite’.
Comments
Qualification goals:
Students will have advanced knowledge of the grammatical structures, the diachronic and dialectal forms of Hittite and the diachronic and regional forms of cuneiform writing. They will be able to define the cuneiform textual evidence on the topic of “People, Environment, Cultural Arena” in the Hittite language and process it independently from a historical and cultural studies perspective.
Contents:
Students will gain an overview of the Hittite-language cuneiform tradition on the topics of “People, Environment, Cultural Arena” with a special focus on formal, diachronic and dialectal varieties of Hittite.
The topic of the seminar will be Hittite treaty texts, starting with the so-called Bronze Tablet.
closeSuggested reading
H. Otten, "Die Bronzetafel aus Bogazköy" (Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten 1), 1988
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2025-10-14 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2025-10-21 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2025-10-28 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2025-11-04 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2025-11-11 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2025-11-18 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2025-11-25 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2025-12-02 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2025-12-09 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2025-12-16 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2026-01-06 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2026-01-13 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2026-01-20 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2026-01-27 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2026-02-03 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, 2026-02-10 12:00 - 13:00