RT Article
T1 The Tablet and its Scribe: Between Archival and Scribal Spaces in Late Empire Period Ḫattusa
JF Altorientalische Forschungen
VO 38
IS 2
SP 177
OP 198
A1 Gordin, Shai
LA German
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/180147446X
AB This study explores the personal copyist statement in the tablet colophons, the scribes who appear in them and the tablets’ findspots in order to demonstrate the relationships between text, scribe and the scholarly work environment of Ḫattusa in the late Empire period (second half of the 13 th cent. BC). It is initially demonstrated how Hittite scribal statements were appended to specific types of texts and had a recurring structure that reflects their purpose. A look at festivals follows. Two large Hittite festivals, the ḫišuwa and AN.TAḪ.ŠUM SAR , were both prepared by scholars related to or working under Walwaziti, the chief scribe of Ḫattusili III, and his family. However, at some point, perhaps during the reign of Tudḫaliya IV, the complex work on the AN.TAḪ.ŠUM SAR festival came under the authority of another scribal group, that of Anuwanza. In this context it is also considered whether certain shelf lists may have been accounts of tablets removed from an archival section.
K1 Hittite festivals
K1 shelf lists
K1 Scribes
K1 COLOPHONS
K1 Archives
DO 10.1524/aofo.2011.0012