oi.uchicago.edu ASSYRIOLOGICAL STUDIES • NO. 26 THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Series Editors Thomas A. Holland and Thomas G. Urban oi.uchicago.edu Hans Gustav Giiterbock leaving Bogazkoy at the end of the 1936 season of excavations. Photograph by Use Bittel oi.uchicago.edu PERSPECTIVES ON HITTITE CIVILIZATION: SELECTED WRITINGS OF HANS GUSTAV GUTERBOCK EDITOR HARRY A. HOFFNER, JR. ASSISTANT EDITOR IRVING L. DIAMOND THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AS S YRIOLOGIC AL STUDIES • No. 26 CHICAGO • ILLINOIS oi.uchicago.edu Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-67508 ISBN: 1-885923-04-X ISSN: 0066-9903 The Oriental Institute, Chicago ©1997 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published 1997. Printed in the United States of America. Series Editors1 Acknowledgments We thank Professor Guterbock, the editors, Richard Beal, and Oguz Soysal for their help with this manuscript. Charles E. Jones, Oriental Institute Re­ search Archivist and Bibliographer, also helped with this project. Valery Braun prepared several of the illustrations for press. Printed by McNaughton & Gitnn, Inc., Saline, Michigan The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. oi.uchicago.edu TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ix PREFACE xi 1 HANS EHELOLF AND THE BOGAZKOY ARCHIVE IN BERLIN 1 Translated from Das Altertum 33 (1987): 114-120 2 A VIEW OF HITTITE LITERATURE 7 Reprinted from the Journal of the American Oriental Society 84 (1964): 107-115 3 HETHITISCHE LITERATUR 15 Reprinted from Neues Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft, Band 1, W. Rollig, ed. (Wiesbaden: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1978), pp. 211-253 4 THE HITTITE VERSION OF THE HURRIAN KUMARBI MYTHS: ORIENTAL FORERUNNERS OF HESIOD 39 Reprinted from the American Journal of Archaeology 52 (1948): 123-134 5 HITTITE MYTHOLOGY 49 Reprinted from Mythologies of the Ancient World, S. N. Kramer, ed. (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1961), pp. 139-179 6 GEDANKEN UBER DAS WESEN DES GOTTES TELIPINU 63 Reprinted from Festschrift Johannes Friedrich zum 65. Geburtstag am 27, August 1958 gewid- met, R. von Kienle, A. Moortgat, H. Otten, E. von Schuler, and W. Zaumseil, eds. (Heidel­ berg: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1959), pp. 207-211 7 A HURRO-HITTITE HYMN TO ISHTAR 65 Reprinted from the Journal of the American Oriental Society 103 (1983): 155-164 8 THE HITTITE PALACE 75 Reprinted from Le palais et la royauti (XIXe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, 1971), P. Garelli, ed. (Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1974), pp. 305-314 9 THE HITTITE TEMPLE ACCORDING TO WRITTEN SOURCES 81 Reprinted from Le temple et le cult, E. Van Donzel, ed. (Leiden: Nederlands Historisch Archeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 1975), pp. 125-132 10 SOME ASPECTS OF HITTITE FESTIVALS 87 Reprinted from Actes de la XVIIe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (1969), Andre Finet, ed. (Brussels: Comite Beige de Recherches en Mesopotamie, 1970), pp. 175-180 11 AN OUTLINE OF THE HITTITE AN.TAH.8UM FESTIVAL 91 Reprinted from the Journal of Near Eastern Studies 19 (1960): 80-89 12 RELIGION UND KULTUS DER HETHITER 99 Reprinted from Neuere Hethiterforschung, G. Walser, ed. (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1964), pp. 54-73 V oi.uchicago.edu vi PERSPECTIVES ON HITTITE CIVILIZATION: SELECTED WRITINGS OF HANS GUSTAV GUTERBOCK 13 AN INITIATION RITE FOR A HITTITE PRINCE ILL Reprinted from the American Oriental Society, Middle West Branch, Semi-Centennial Volume: A Collection of Original Essays, D. Sinor, ed. (Asian Studies Research Institute, Oriental Se­ ries 3; Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1969), pp. 99-103 14 HETHITISCHE GOTTERBILDER UND KULTOBJEKTE 115 Reprinted from Beitrage zur Altertumskunde Kleinasiens: Festschrift fur Kurt Bittel, R. M. Boehmer and H. Hauptmann, eds. (Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabem, 1983), pp. 203-217 15 SEALS AND SEALING IN HITTITE LANDS 127 Reprinted from From Athens to Gordion: The Papers of a Memorial Symposium for Rodney S. Young, Keith DeVries, ed. (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1980), pp. 51-63 16 HITTITE KJJRSA "HUNTING BAG" 137 Reprinted from Essays in Ancient Civilization Presented to Helene /. Kantor, A. Leonard, Jr., and B. B. Williams, eds. (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, no. 47; Chicago: The Orien­ tal Institute, 1989), pp. 113-119 17 IVORY IN HITTITE TEXTS 147 Reprinted from Anadolu/Anatolia, Journal of the Institute for Research in Near Eastern and Mediterranean Civilizations of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Ankara 15 (1971): 1-7 18 OIL PLANTS IN HITTITE ANATOLIA 151 Reprinted from the Journal of the American Oriental Society 88 (1968): 66-71 19 HITTITE LIVER MODELS 157 Reprinted from Language, Literature, and History: Philological and Historical Studies Pre­ sented to Erica Reiner, F. Rochberg-Halton, ed. (New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1987), pp. 147-153 20 BILINGUAL MOON OMENS FROM BOGAZKOY 161 Reprinted from A Scientific Humanist: Studies in Memory of Abraham Sachs, E. Leichty, M. deJ. Ellis, and P. Gerardi, eds. (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1988), pp. 161-174 21 HITTITE HISTORIOGRAPHY: A SURVEY 171 Reprinted from History, Historiography and Interpretation: Studies in Biblical and Cuneiform Literatures, H. Tadmor and M. Weinfeld, eds. (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1983), pp. 21-35 22 THE HURRIAN ELEMENT IN THE HITTITE EMPIRE 179 Reprinted from Cahiers d'Histoire Mondiale 2 (1954): 383-394 23 KANES AND NESA: TWO FORMS OF ONE ANATOLIAN PLACE NAME? 187 Reprinted from Eretz Israel 5 (1958): 46*-50* 24 THE HITTITE CONQUEST OF CYPRUS RECONSIDERED 191 Reprinted from the Journal of Near Eastern Studies 26 (1967): 73-81 25 THE HITTITES AND THE AEGEAN WORLD: PART 1. THE AHHIYAWA PROBLEM RECONSIDERED 199 Reprinted from the American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983): 133-138 26 HITTITES AND AKHAEANS: A NEW LOOK 205 Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 128 (1984): 114-122 27 WER WARTAWAGALAWA? 211 Reprinted from Orientalia, Nova Series, 59(1990): 157-165 oi.uchicago.edu TABLE OF CONTENTS vii 28 A NEW LOOK AT ONE AgtJIYAWA TEXT 217 Reprinted from Hittite and Other Anatolian and Near Eastern Studies in Honour of Sedat Alp, H. Otten, E. Akurgal, H. Ertem, and A. Siiel, eds. (Ankara: Turk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, 1992), pp. 235-243 29 TROY IN HITTITE TEXTS? WILUSA, AHHIYAWA AND HITTITE HISTORY 223 Reprinted from Troy and the Trojan War. A Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College, October 1984, M. Mellink, ed. (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Bryn Mawr College, 1986), pp. 33-44 30 AUTHORITY AND LAW IN THE HITTITE KINGDOM 229 Reprinted from the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Supplement 17 (1954): 16-24 31 REVIEW OF J. FRIEDRICH, DIE HETHITISCHEN GESETZE 233 Reprinted from the Journal of Cuneiform Studies 15 (1961): 62-78 32 FURTHER NOTES ON THE HITTITE LAWS 247 Reprinted from the Journal of Cuneiform Studies 16 (1962): 17-23 33 BEMERKUNGEN ZU DEN AUSDRUCKEN ellum, wardum UND asirum IN HETHITISCHEN TEXTEN 255 Reprinted from Gesellschaftsklassen im Alten Zweistromland und in den angrenzenden Gebie- ten (XVIII. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale), D. O. Edzard, ed. (Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1972), pp. 93-97 INDICES 259 oi.uchicago.edu oi.uchicago.edu LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ABoT Ankara Arkeoloji Miizesinde bulunan Bogazkoy Tabletleri. Istanbul, 1948 Bo Inventory numbers of Bogazkoy tablets excavated 1906-1912 CTH Catalogue des textes hittites. Second edition. By E. Laroche. Paris, 1971 Ed(s). editor(s) FHG "Fragments hittites de Geneve." E. Laroche. In Revue d'Assyriologie et d! Archeologie orientate 45 (1951): 131-38, 184-94 and 46 (1952): 42-50, 214 HGG Hans Gustav Guterbock HT Hittite Texts in the Cuneiform Character in the British Museum. London, 1920 IBOT Istanbul Arkeoloji Miizesinde Bulunan Bogazkoy Tabletleri{nden Segme Metinler). Istanbul, 1944, 1947, 1954, Ankara 1988 KBo Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazkoi (volumes 1-22 are a subseries of Wissenschaftliche Veroffent- lichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft). Leipzig, Berlin KUB Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazkoy. Berlin p(p). page(s) Perspectives Perspectives on Hittite Civilization: Selected Writings of Hans Gustav Guterbock. Edited by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., and Irving L. Diamond. Assyriological Studies, No. 26. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1997 VBoT Verstreute Boghazkoi-Texte. Edited by A. Gotze. Marburg, 1930 ix oi.uchicago.edu oi.uchicago.edu PREFACE The thirty-three articles in this collection (originally published between 1948 and 1992) were chosen from the corpus of bibliographical items authored by Hans Gustav Giiterbock over a span of more than sixty years. They give a rich and varied picture of ancient Hittite culture by one who literally grew up with the new discipline and experienced firsthand its most dramatic discoveries. For an autobiographical memoir, see Guterbock's "Resurrecting the Hittites," in Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, J. M. Sasson, ed. (New York: Scribner's, 1995), pp. 2765-2777. Both the choice of articles and their sequence in this volume were decisions of Professor Guterbock. Articles deal with almost every conceivable aspect of ancient Hittite culture: history, literature, divination, mythology/theology, re­ ligious ceremonies, architecture, ethnic diversity, law, diplomacy, social structure, and administration. This diversity demonstrates Guterbock's proficiency