Inscriptions of the Iron Age
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Inscriptions of the Iron Age

Part 1: Text, Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamis, Tell Ahmar, Maras, Malatya, Commagene. Part 2: Text, Amuq, Aleppo, Hama, Tabal, Assur Letters, Miscellaneous, Seals, Indices. Part 3: Plates

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Inscriptions of the Iron Age

Part 1: Text, Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamis, Tell Ahmar, Maras, Malatya, Commagene. Part 2: Text, Amuq, Aleppo, Hama, Tabal, Assur Letters, Miscellaneous, Seals, Indices. Part 3: Plates

About this book

This is an edition of the Hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Late Hittite states of Turkey and Syria. These inscriptions, surviving largely on stone, include monuments of kings to their reigns and works as well as the humbler memorials of subordinates. A few precious survivals of documents in the form of lead strips give us a different type of document: letters and economic texts. Recent discoveries have improved the decipherment and understanding of these inscriptions to a point where new and comprehensive translations can be offered, and the presentation of this in English will make them available for the first time to the wide audience of the English-speaking world. At the same time we are in a position to present more reliable texts than those which have appeared in editions hitherto regarded as standard.

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Table of contents

  1. Part 1
  2. Preface
  3. Inscriptions listed alphabetically
  4. Abbreviations I: General
  5. Abbreviations II: Bibliographical
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. A. General
  8. B. Inscriptions and Script
  9. C. The Corpus
  10. D. Principles of Transliteration
  11. E. Appendices 1–3
  12. I. CILICIA
  13. The Historical Context
  14. The Inscriptions
  15. II. KARKAMIÅ 
  16. The Historical Context
  17. The Inscriptions
  18. III. TELL AHMAR
  19. The Historical Context
  20. The Inscriptions
  21. IV. MARAÅž
  22. The Historical Context
  23. The Inscriptions
  24. V. MALATYA
  25. The Historical Context
  26. The Inscriptions
  27. VI. COMMAGENE
  28. Part 2
  29. VII. AMUQ
  30. The Historical Context
  31. The Inscriptions
  32. VIII. ALEPPO
  33. The Historical Context
  34. The Inscriptions
  35. IX. HAMA
  36. The Historical Context
  37. The Inscriptions
  38. X. TABAL
  39. The Historical Context
  40. The Inscriptions
  41. XI. ASSUR letters
  42. The Texts
  43. XII. MISCELLANEOUS
  44. XIII. SEALS
  45. Rulers’ seals
  46. Kubaba seals
  47. Ownership seals
  48. Name seals
  49. Miscellaneous
  50. Appendix 4. ALTINTEPE pithos inscriptions
  51. Addendum. II.74. KARKAMIÅ  frag.a/b
  52. INDICES
  53. Inscriptions listed alphabetically (repeated)
  54. Location of the Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions
  55. Concordance
  56. List of Signs
  57. List of Logograms transcribed into Latin
  58. Index of words discussed
  59. 1. Hieroglyphic Luwian
  60. 2. Hittite
  61. 3. Hittite-Luwian
  62. 4. Cuneiform Luwian
  63. 5. Akkadian
  64. 6. Cuneiform logograms
  65. 7. Lycian
  66. 8. Lydian
  67. 9. Greek
  68. 10. Latin
  69. Part 3
  70. List of Plates