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- Title: On Recent Cuneiform Editions of Hittite Fragments (I) (Report)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 212 KB
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Kei1schriftiexte aus Boghazkoi (1) (henceforth KBo) is one of the primary and oldest publication series for the Hittite cuneiform documents from Bogazkoy, and its first six volumes were edited by pioneer scholars H. H. Figulla, E. F. Weidner, O. Weber, E. Forrer, and F. Hrozny between the years 1916-21. They contain the copies of the most important and well preserved tablets stemming from the first excavation seasons at Bogazkoy under the direction of H. Winckler and Th. Makridi. The Second World War and its aftermath resulted in an extended hiatus of the publication of KBo. In 1954 H. Otten released volume 7 of the series, which offered the finds from the more systematically conducted excavations of K. Bittel. Since then, and for more than a half century, Otten alone and with his long-time colleague Chr. Ruster (Werner) continuously and prodigiously published a great deal of this series. With some exceptions (H. G. Guterbock, C. W. Carter, H. M. Kummel, G. Wilhelm, E. Neu), Otten was the person primarily responsible for work on the KBo editions. Volume 45 (2003) represented a turning point for the series when scholars from the younger generation (G. Torn, J. L. Miller, D. Groddek) joined in the job of copying Hittite fragments. The appearance of volume 58 in September 2008 established the welcome fact that the reinforcements of new copyists have remarkably sped up the process of editing and disseminating previously unpublished written material from Bogazkoy, making them accessible to the scholarly community. Among these freshmen, J. L. Miller alone in the short time period between 2005 and 2008 has delivered four volumes of KBo (50, 53, 57, 58). The volume under review, from the year 2005, is his first publication in this category. It contains copies of 310 fragments made by him and twenty-six hand-copies by others (E. Neu, H. Otten, and Chr. Ruster).
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