Hittite scribal circles: scholarly tradition and writing habits
1.3.1.4 Layout: Tablet Shapes, Columns, and Paragraphs1.3.1.5 How Layout Relates to Generic Language and Composition; 1.3.1.6 Reading and Performance; 1.3.2 Colophons and Incipits; 1.3.3 The Personal Scribal Annotation; 2 The Corpus of Personal Scribal Annotations and Its Analytical Framework; 2.1 G...
| Summary: | 1.3.1.4 Layout: Tablet Shapes, Columns, and Paragraphs1.3.1.5 How Layout Relates to Generic Language and Composition; 1.3.1.6 Reading and Performance; 1.3.2 Colophons and Incipits; 1.3.3 The Personal Scribal Annotation; 2 The Corpus of Personal Scribal Annotations and Its Analytical Framework; 2.1 General Remarks on the Corpus and Its Presentation; 2.2 A List of Empire Period Manuscripts with Scribal Signatures; 2.3 Methods of Analysis and Perspectives on Previous Research; 2.3.1 Generic Classification: Modern Categories for Ancient Manuscripts. 2.3.2 Prosopography: Reconstructing Social Institutions2.3.3 Palaeography and Orthography in the Study of Scribal Habits; 3 Tracing Hittite Technical "Authorship" and Scribal Specialisation; 3.1 Scribal Onomastics and the Empire Period Rise in Literacy; 3.2 Old and Middle Hittite Signed Manuscripts; 3.3 Signed Manuscripts from the Late Empire Period; 3.4 Scribal Selection? Thoughts on the Function of Hittite Shelf-lists; 3.5 Conclusions: Signatures, Authorship, and Scribal Specialisation; 4 Hittite Scribes: Scholar and Expert Titles, Work Relations, and Training. 4.1 The Scribe, His Titles, and His Affiliations4.1.1 The Writer's Statement: Form and Function; 4.1.2 The Apprentice (gáb.zu.zu); 4.1.2.1 Apprentices Arranged According to Teachers; 4.1.2.2 Scribal Apprenticeship and the Position of Teachers; 4.2 The Witnessing Authority: Duties and Titles; 4.3 Scribes as Medical Experts; 4.4 Scribes in Hieroglyphic Sources; 4.5 Conclusions: Towards a Hierarchy of the Hittite Literate Classes; 5 Late Empire Period Scribal Circles and Their "Scriptoria"; 5.1 The Scribal Circle of Walwaziti gal dub.sar(meš). 5.1.1 Mittannamuwa gal dub.sar(meš), Father of Walwaziti, and His Family5.1.2 Walwaziti's ḫišuwa Festival and Other Scribal Projects; 5.1.2.1 The Two-columned Version of the ḫišuwa; 5.1.3 Instructors Affiliated with Walwaziti; 5.1.4 Büyükkale Building A: Walwaziti's "Scriptorium"?; 5.2 Scribal Circles of Anuwanza dub.sar, lúsag, and en uruNerik; 5.2.1 Scribal Authority and Coordination between Circles; 5.2.2 Anuwanza's Career and Family Circle; 5.2.2.1 Evaluating Anuwanza's Early Work; 5.2.2.2 Tummani and ... : Sons of Anuwanza; 5.2.3 Anuwanza's "Scriptorium": Textual Projects and Find-spots. Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Bibliographical Abbreviations; General Abbreviations; Technical Sigla; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Hittite Writing Tradition and Scholarly Text Production; 1.2 A Study of Late Empire Scribes and Their Habits: Questions and Goals; 1.3 Approaching the Text Corpus; 1.3.1 Hittite Manuscripts: Storage, Form and Consumption; 1.3.1.1 Tablet Find-spots and Archival and Scribal Spaces in Ḫattuša; 1.3.1.2 Diplomatics of Hittite Manuscripts; 1.3.1.3 Tablet Medium: Genres on Clay, Wood, and Metal. |
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| Item Description: | A Revision of the author's thesis Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-395) and index |
| ISBN: | 344719457X |