Süel, Aygül : Ortaköy-Şapinuva Tabletleri
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"Süel, Aygül : Ortaköy-Şapinuva Tabletleri"
Aygül Süel,
Ortaköy-Şapinuva Tabletleri
Ankara 2025
ISBN 978-625-8550-05-4
XXII + 934 S./pp., S/W-Abb./ b/w-figs., 29,7 x 21 cm; kartoniert/hardcover
Hittite cuneiform tablets are invaluable artifacts left to us by a highly advanced civilization that reflects knowledge from its era to the present day. Though made of clay and appearing lifeless and soulless, they are precious treasures that transport us back to their time when they “speak,” bringing the history, language, and culture of a civilization into the present.
When you hold a cuneiform tablet in your hands – especially when you come across one in the ground – you’re filled with excitement, wondering what it will tell you. As you hold it, your hands trembling, you ask yourself, “Who wrote this? What is it saying?” Reading it is not so easy. Because it is written in a writing system no longer in use today and in a dead language we no longer encounter. There is much that remains unknown; one must focus on what it intended to convey by returning to the era in which it was written and establish an emotional connection with it.
The Ortaköy tablets are invaluable treasures that convey information about the Hittite Civilization to us. This book has been prepared to convey the information from a vast archive to you. I believe this book, which involves a very difficult and lengthy process, will serve as a foundation for Hittitologists, those engaged with the Hittites and their language, writing, and history, as well as those studying the history of religion, medicine, law, agriculture, and so on…
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