Languages in Cuneiform Writing II (Hittite, Akkadian) [ LGLOR2612 ]

- http://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/HPM/hethportlinks.html

- http://www.premiumwanadoo.com/cuneiform.languages/fr_index_grammaire.htm

- http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/cad/ (akkadian dictionary)

- http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/chd/ (hittite dictionary)

LGLOR1611 and LGLOR1612.

Alternating with LGLOR 2611, this course of 45 hours deals with texts of varied content (historic, religious, etc.) in Akkadian and Hittite, dating essentially from the second millennium B.C.

To this course are added 22,5 hours of exercises which correspond to the personal preparation of an Akkadian or Hittite text.

Students who follow the course partim (5 credits), will choose between the Akkadian and Hittite sections.

In-depth study of the Akkadian and Hittite languages.

At the end of this course, the student will be able to translate a cuneiform text and to make intelligent use of the dictionaries, grammars, and sign lists.

Written exam ( translation and analysis of a text in cuneiform).

The selected texts are prepared by the students and the translations are discussed during the course, in order to reach a valid translation and a good understanding of the text.

The course enables the student to deepen and widen his knowledge and experiences acquired at bachelor level. According to the year, the texts studied, for example, are:

- extracts of Akkadian and Hittite epics or myths (Gilgamesh, Enuma elish, the Telepinu myth);
- the royal neo-Assyrian inscriptions;
- Hittite rituals;
- Hittite treaties and edicts.

Akkadian :

- F. Malbran-Labat, Manuel de langue akkadienne (PIOL, 50), Louvain, 2001.
- W. von Soden, Grundriss der akkadischen Grammatik, 3e éd. (AnOr 33). Rome, 1995.
- R. Labat & F. Malbran-Labat, Manuel d'épigraphie akkadienne (signes, syllabaire, idéogrammes), 6e éd., Paris, 1988.
- The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, 1956.

- F. Malbran-Labat, Manuel de langue akkadienne : Lexiques akkadien - français et français - akkadien (PIOL, 51), Louvain, 2001.

Hittite :

- H.A. Hoffner & H.C. Melchert, A Grammar of the Hittite Language (Languages of the Ancient Near East, 1), Winona Lake, 2008.
- S. Vanséveren, Nisili : manuel de langue hittite (Lettres orientales 10), Louvain, 2006.
- E. Neu & Ch. Rüster, Hethitisches Zeichenlexikon (Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten. Beiheft 2), Wiesbaden, 1989.
- H.G. Güterbock, The Hittite dictionary of the Oriental institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, 1989-.
- J. Tischler, Hethitisches Handwörterbuch (Innsbrücker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 128), Innsbruck, 2008.

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