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Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions

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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 ston...
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  • 06 May 2024
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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.

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Price: $206.99
Pages: 924
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Series: Untersuchungen zur indogermanischen Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft. NF / Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture. New Series
Publication Date: 06 May 2024
ISBN: 9783110770391
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: ART015060 ART / History / Ancient & Classical, FOR025000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese), HIS026000 HISTORY / Middle East / General, LAN009000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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John Hawkins, SOAS University of London, Great Britain.