This volume honors Theo van den Hout, the Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor Emeritus of Hittite and Anatolian Languages at the University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and a preeminent philologist, linguist, and historian. The thirty-six essays offered here reflect the wide range of Professor van den Hout's research interests and include text editions, studies on religion and writing, and investigations into diverse lexical, linguistic, and literary topics.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
Publications of Theo van den Hout
1. Deep Structures in the AN.TA.UM and nuntarriyaa- Festivals, by
Alfonso Archi
2. How Are Unrelated Verbs Related? tuuear and Its Friends and
Relations, by Richard H. Beal
3. Madduwattas In-Law Troubles, by Gary Beckman
4. VITA and Double Eagle in the Iconography of Hittite Seals, by James
Michael Burgin
5. Pirate Historiography and the Late Bronze Age, by Dennis R. M. Campbell
6. Mursili II and the Sammeltafeln, by Billie Jean Collins
7. Hethitische Event und Result Nominals: Die Syntax der
Nominalisierungen, by Paola Cotticelli Kurras
8. The Topos of Homer the Herald in Greek and Latin Literature, by Irene
J. F. de Jong
9. The Undelivered ASSUR Letters: Reading /wa/ for the Hieroglyphic Luwian
Sign *375, by Martien Dillo
10. Dealing with Bestiality in Hittite Anatolia: The Interplay between
Ritual and Jurisprudence, by Amir Gilan
11. Poldering in Beyond-the-River: Revisiting the End of the ÇNEKÖY
Inscription, by Petra M. Goedegebuure
12. Weil sein kann, was nicht sein darf! KBo 58.216 + KBo 7.44: Zum Problem
der Bilokation einer hethitischen Tontafel, by Detlev Groddek
13. Bemerkungen zur Fußbekleidung bei den Hethitern, by Albertine
Hagenbuchner-Dresel
14. Dative or No Dative: The Function of the Morpheme *-is in Semitic, by
Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
15. EMRGAZ 1: Current State of Reading and Interpretation, by J. David
Hawkins
16. The Ivory Panel with a Dancing God from Temple 7 in Boazköy/Hattusa
Reconsidered, by Suzanne Herbordt
17. Only an Image? nb, atri-, and the Katumuwa Inscription, by Virginia R.
Herrmann
18. The Gala in Presargonic Laga Revisited, by Fumi Karahashi
19. Linguistic Interpretations of the Spelling of Hittite Dative-Locative
and Allative Singular Forms, by Alwin Kloekhorst
20. Visual Rhetoric: Physical Design for Semantic Stress in the SÜDBURG
Inscription, by Robert Marineau
21. The Mediopassive in Transition from Old to New Hittite, by H. Craig
Melchert
22. Anatolian Hieroglyphic Writing: The Question of Its Origin and
Development, by Clelia Mora
23. Women in Hittite Correspondence: Some Case Studies, by Alice Mouton
24. Horses and Chariots, Hittites and Indo-Aryans in the Studies of Annelies
Kammenhuber: A Look behind the Curtain of Chariotry Research, by Peter
Raulwing
25. Hidden Pronominal Clitics in Luwian Texts, by Elisabeth Rieken and Ilya
Yakubovich
26. Rethinking the Size and Role of attua, by Jürgen Seeher
27. A Magical Ritual Concerning the West Anatolian Foe Kukkulli, by Ouz
Soysal
28. The Chronological Boundaries of the Persepolis Fortification Archive, by
Matthew W. Stolper
29. The Divine Soul, the Royal Soul, and Legal Authority in Hittite Texts,
by Ada Taggar Cohen
30. A New Fragment of the Arinna Text Corpus, by Piotr Taracha
31. The Curious Case of Walawalas Letter: An Old Assyrian Envelope in the
ISAC Museum, by Oya Topçuolu
32. When the moon gives an omen: On the Ritual KUB 17.28 III 18IV 44 and
Its Composition, by Giulia Torri
33. Eight Middle Babylonian Texts, by Wilfred H. van Soldt
34. From a Calm Sea to a Desolate Depth: A New Interpretation of ku(wa)li(u)
unu(n)ear, by Willemijn Waal
35. Das Kultinventar KuT 60 aus aria, by Gernot Wilhelm
36. On the Hittite Mediopassive Type anditta, by Kazuhiko Yoshida
