Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions - Vol 3: Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, 2 Teile - Volume III: Inscriptions of the Hittite Empire and New Inscriptions of the Iron Age

Luwian and the closely related Hittite are the oldest known languages of the Indo-European group. Luwian is written in two scripts: Cuneiform and its own Hieroglyphic, which survives mostly on stone monuments collected from Turkey and Syria. The texts fall into two main groups, those of the Hittite Empire (c. 1400-1200 B.C.), and those of the Iron Age (c. 1000-700 B.C.),with a transitional period (c. 1200-1000 B.C.). One of the editor's principal research efforts has been the establishment of reliable texts presented in facsimile copies and photographs. His Inscriptions of the Iron Age were published as Vol. I in 2000, and the great Luwian-Phoenician Bilingual in collaboration with Halet Çambel as Vol. II in 1999. Vol. III will present the Inscriptions of the Hittite Empire along with the newly discovered Iron Age inscriptions, thus completing the whole corpus. It will then make available to the scholarly world the Luwian language in its Hieroglyphic manifestation, which will be of importance to philologists and ancient historians alike.

About the author

John Hawkins, SOAS University of London, Great Britain.

Product details

• Authors: John D. Hawkins, John David Hawkins
• Assisted by: Junko Taniguchi (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9783110770391
• ISBN: 978-3-11-077039-1
• No. of pages: 872
• Weight: 3379 g
• Illustrations: 612 b/w and 30 col. ill.
• Set: Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions
• Series: Untersuchungen zur indogermanischen Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft. NF / Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture. New Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity