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Article: Hittite Diplomatic Texts.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Hittite Diplomatic Texts. Second edition. By GARY BECKMAN. Writings from the Ancient World, vol. 7. Atlanta: SCHOLARS PRESS, 1999. Pp. xx + 224 (paper).
The book under review is the second edition of a series of translations by one of the world's leading Hittitologists. The author is equally at home in the two languages in which these treaties are written--Hittite and the western dialects of Akkadian--his two previous books being Hittite Birth Rituals (1) and Texts from the Vicinity of Emar (2) (mostly legal documents in a Syrian dialect of Akkadian). The first edition of Hittite Diplomatic Texts was given positive reviews by the Italian Hittitologist A. Archi ...