New Online from the Oriental Institute: CHDS 3. Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration II (Bo 6151–Bo 9535)

CHDS 3. Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration II (Bo 6151–Bo 9535) 
Oğuz Soysal and Başak Yıldız Gülşen
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The monograph offers a large number of unpublished text fragments in photo and transliteration and gives succinct philological notes to these fragments. The fragments are part of a large collection that had been found during the early Turkish-German campaigns at the Hittite capital Hattusa before the Second World War. The fragments were taken to the Staatliche Museen in Berlin (which fell to Eastern Germany after the war) and were finally returned by the German Democratic Republic to Turkey (the Museum of Ancient Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara) in the year 1987. They were then divided among a team of eminent Turkish Hittitologists under the supervision of Sedat Alp, but most of the pieces remained unpublished. Following a decision of the Turkish Ministry of Culture in 2010, a new team was formed, partly consisting of members of the former team, but also supplemented by several fine younger Turkish Hittitologists. The authors of the present monograph are among these new team members.

Oğuz Soysal, a Hittitologist, and Başak Yıldız Gülşen, a curator of the Ankara Museum, provide photographs and transliterations of each piece. This is a very felicitous decision. Photos offer the users of his book all the information needed on the sign forms of the fragments, and the transliterations show how the authors have interpreted those signs. Wherever necessary, the authors give philological notes to explain certain forms or to present relevant text variants. Each fragment, if possible, is accompanied by information on its assignment to a Hittite text or text genre, the date of the composition, the fragmentʼs measurements, and previous bibliography.

After the presentation of the fragments highly useful indexes on onomastics and lexicographical matters close the book.

Table of Contents

Foreword
List of Abbreviations
Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration II (Bo 6151–Bo 9535)
Appendix 1: Addenda and Corrigenda to CHDS 2
Appendix 2: Concordance of Bo-Texts and CHDS 2–3 Numbers
Index of Proper Names
Select Lexical Entries from Bo 6151–Bo 9535
Lexical Citations
Citations from Other Boğazköy Texts
Concordance of the CTH Numbers of Bo 6151–Bo 9535 according to CHDS 3 and Konkordanz

• Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration II (Bo 6151–Bo 9535)
• Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements 3
• Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2019
• ISBN: 978-1-61491-044-2
• Pp. xvi + 306; 316 illustrations (most color)
• Softcover, 9 x 11.75 in.

 Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements (CHDS) | List of volumes in print

• CHDS 2. Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration I (Bo 9536 - Bo 9736). By Oguz Soysal. 2014 
• CHDS 1. Ankara Arkeoloji Müzesinde bulanan Bogazköy Tabletleri II - Bogazköy Tablets in the Archaeological Museum of Ankara II. By Rukiye Akdogan and Oguz Soysal. 2011.

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