Names on Seals, Names in Texts. Who Were These People?

Main author: Weeden, Mark
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description The chapter reviews some of the criteria for successfully reading names on hieroglyphic seals from Hattusa and for distinguishing between Hittite and Luwian names among these. As quickly becomes apparent through a review of published Hieroglyphic seal-impressions from Hattusa, there are many more Luwian names than there are Hittite ones, the Hittite names sometimes being associated with the semantics of prestige. This distribution fits the model of Hittite being a language belonging to a receding ruling class, while the majority of the population identifies with Luwian nomenclature.
author_additional Mouton, Alice
author_additionalStr Mouton, Alice
format Book Chapters
author Weeden, Mark
author_facet Weeden, Mark
authorStr Weeden, Mark
author_letter Weeden, Mark
title Names on Seals, Names in Texts. Who Were These People?
publisher Brill
publishDate 2013
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/15930/