Ḫattušaš utnē išḫameški

A Festschrift for Prof. Piotr Taracha on the occasion of the his 65th birthday.

Preface                                                                                             IX

Tabula gratulatoria                                                                        XV

Publications of Piotr Taracha                                                       XVII

Abbreviations                                                                           XXXIII

Other abbreviations                                                                     XLV                             

Archi, Alfonso

More on the Cult of the Ancestors at Ebla

in the Third Millennium BC                                                        1

Beckman, Gary

The Matter of dampūpi                                                             23

Bieliński, Piotr

A Tentative Bronze Age “Shopping Mall”

from Northeastern Syria                                                            34

Dan, Roberto – Marie Claude Trémouille

The Missing Corner: An Unpublished Inscription

from the Körzüt Temple in Its Architectural Context                   43

Dardano, Paola

Auxiliary Selection in Hittite:

Some Notes on the Verb paršnai- ‘to squat’                               65

Drewnowska, Olga

The Goddess Nanāya in the Hittite Fairy Tale of Appu                81

Giusfredi, Federico – Valerio Pisaniello

KBo 23.52 and KBo 30.149:

Two Witnesses of a Hittite Festival                                            86

Görke, Susanne

KBo 40.256 – eine recycelte Tafel aus Ḫattuša?                        101

Groddek, Detlev

Drei kleine Bemerkungen zur anatolischen Philologie               109

Hutter, Manfred

Die Göttergruppe Anna, Aruna, Zarnizza und Sarmamma

in den Huwassanna-Ritualen                                                    118

Hutter-Braunsar, Sylvia

Kilušḫepas Tod                                                                       128

Kapełuś, Magdalena

Ritual for the Ancestors (CTH 632)                                          140

Kryszeń, Adam – Elisabeth Rieken

On the Meaning of tarān(a)-, tarāur and tārāuwar

in Hittite Festival Texts                                                           149

Lorenz, Jürgen

Information Economics in the Times of Akhenaten

and Tutankhamun                                                                   162

Melchert, H. Craig

A Hittite Marriage Procession                                                  180

Michel, Patrick Maxime

^Éḫalentuwa Again. What we Might Know from

Texts and Iconography                                                            188

Mora, Clelia – Paola Poli

Some Reflections on the Sculptural Cycles of Alaca Höyük       199

Oettinger, Norbert

Inherited Elements in Hittite Religion                                      210

Poetto, Massimo

Hieroglyphic Luwian ka+r- ‘to sacrifice’:

Linguistic Liaisons                                                                  221

Prechel, Doris

Das Tukultī-Ninurta-Epos, ein mu’ertu

und seine hethitische Tradition                                                225

Sandowicz, Małgorzata

The Egibis’ Monkey Seal                                                        240

Sekunda, Nicholas

The Kydones: Indo-Europeans from Anatolia

on Crete before the Minoans?                                                  256

Simon, Zsolt

The Neo-Hittite Deity Ikura                                                     272

Soysal, Oğuz

Ein neues Fragment zu CTH 1 und zum besseren

Verständnis der Wildtierliste im Anitta-Text                             281

Starke, Frank

„Vertrag“, „Gesetz“ und „pflichtgemäßes Handeln“

bei den Hethitern                                                                    286

Tatishvili, Irene

Quelques réflexions sur la cosmologie hittite                            334

Torri, Giulia

A King against the Law? Some Remarks about LSU 3

in Light of §53 of the Hittite Laws                                           346

Ünal, Ahmet

Hittite šulla- ‘hostage’ with its Deverbal Cognate,

and ÉRIN^MEŠ pai- ‘militaris dare’ or ‘obsides dare’?

An Alternative Interpretation of a Military Phrase                     361

van den Hout, Theo P. J.

Some Thoughts on the Reliefs at Alaca Höyük,

the Kınık Bowl, and the International Koiné                             378

Velhartická, Šárka

Rudolf Ranoszek, Stanisław Schayer, Stefan Przeworski,

Tadeusz Sinko and Other Polish Orientalists

in Czech Archives                                                                   391

Yoshida, Kazuhiko

Some Remarks on the Distribution

of the Suffixes -ške- and -ška- in Hittite                                    411

Zawadzki, Stefan

An Unusual Neo-Babylonian Document

from the Time of Amēl-Marduk                                               419

Natalia Bolatti Guzzo is a former researcher of Anatolian philology and epigraphy at the University “Suor Orsola Benincasa,” Naples. Rita Francia is associate professor of Anatolian studies – Hittitology at the Sapienza University of Rome, as well as guest professor of Hittite history and culture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.

• Edited by Natalia Bolatti Guzzo
• Edited by Magdalena Kapełuś
• Edited by Adam Kryszeń