Die hethitischen Tontafelkataloge aus Ḫattuša (CTH 276-282) by Paola Dardano Review by: Gary Beckman Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 126, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 2006), p. 627 Published by: American Oriental Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20064566 . Accessed: 14/06/2014 20:57 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. . American Oriental Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the American Oriental Society. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 185.2.32.110 on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 20:57:12 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=aos http://www.jstor.org/stable/20064566?origin=JSTOR-pdf http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp Brief Reviews Die hethitischen Tontafelkataloge aus Jattu?a (CTH 276-282). By PAOLA DARDANO. Studien zu den Bogazkoy Texten, vol. 47. Wiesbaden: HARRASSO WITZ VERLAG, 2006. Pp. xviii + 396. E98. Among the debris of the archives of the Hittite cap ital there have been recovered a small number of tablets that list collections of other compositions, usually cited by their colophons (sometimes abbreviated; see p. 14). These tabulations, of which around sixty-five have now been identified, have traditionally been characterized by scholars as "catalogues" (so CTH) or "shelf lists." But Paola Dardano, author of this complete edition and study of the material, demonstrates that the lists are unlikely to be records of all tablets stored together in a parti cular location, or even of the complete holdings of a library dealing with a certain topic. Rather, the pres ence of unrelated genres in a single compilation seem ingly indicates that they record texts removed by the Hittite archivists from their proper place for some tem porary purpose, say for consultation or recopying (pp. 9 11). Dardano points out that the majority of the listed texts belong to types intended for use over a long period (p. 17). It is this very sort of record whose contents we would expect to be checked most frequently and renewed if necessary. These registers afford us an opportunity to appreci ate just how much of the original contents of the Hittite tablet collections has been lost. The lists at our disposal, which are for the most part fragmentary, mention around 650 compositions, of which the character of some 430 can be established. Of these 430, only about eighty (18.6%) can be identified with recovered texts (p. 5). On the topic of losses, it is sadly amusing for the Hittitologist to read the remarks appended by his Hittite counterparts to some of the entries (pp. 7-9): Tablets are "missing" (NUGAL), "lacking" (waq-), "not yet found" (natta wemiya-), "not available" (natta ar-), "not included" (natta handai-), "old" (LABERU), or "totally abraded" (arha harran). The author makes good use of those lists whose find-spots are known, in order to establish the ancient storage location for cited compositions recovered dur ing the early excavations at Bogazkoy when an object's place of excavation was generally not noted. This in formation, although sometimes tentative, will certainly contribute to efforts currently underway to reconstruct the archives and libraries of Hattusa. Dardano's philological editions of the texts gath ered here are excellent; the transliterations are accurate, restorations are judicious, and-as is to be expected in a work whose author has made use of the resources of the Hethitologisches Archiv of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz-the ad duced textual parallels and relevant bibliography are thorough and up to date. Indeed, my only criticism of the work is that the commentary is at times padded and unnecessarily repetitive. For instance, the remarks on p. 223 consist almost entirely of directions to pages in standard reference works that the reader could find easily enough herself. And very similar remarks on the zintuhi-women are given on pp. 36f., 203, and 252. Technical comments: p. 48, Text L c, 1. col. 12 [: Restore, after KBo 17.77 rev. 6' (p. 50): [na-as-m]a ma-a-an / [LUGAL-usl 'a? ra?'-aWh-za pa-iz-zi dU-a?-ma te-e]t-ha-i. p. 53, Text Le, i 5' Perhaps SA KILAM i-hi-ti-l[a asl refers to regulations concerning the guarding or administration of the gate-building (Ejhilammar). pp. 60f, Text Ig, iii 4: I would translate rather: "Wenn man (den Gott) in den Tempel eines anderen durch ein Ritual bringt." For the author's "wegen eines Rituals" we would expect A-NA SISKUR. pp. 224-27, Text IVc, ii 6' and iii 14y: Note the distinction in the use of ep-, "to seize, afflict." When the subject is a disease, such as SUALU, "cough" (ii 15', iii 6), the verb occurs alone (cf. HWV II, 54f.), but with the body-part auli-, "throat, trachea (?)," as subject, it is accompanied by fza. p. 241, Text VILa, edge 1: Translate "Der Konig ist gerade heraufgekommen"; cf. Hoffner, Die Sprache 43 (2002-2003): 81. p. 251, Text VIle: Judging from the copy (KUB 48.48), the script of this fragment is not New Hittite ("jh.") but rather Middle Hittite ("mh.," Typ Ila). Com pare URU (obv. 4', 8', rev. 13') and IJAR (obv. 5') with the forms in Spalte V of StBoT 20. GARY BECKMAN UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN The Iconography of Cylinder Seals. Edited by PAUL TAYLOR. Warburg Institute Colloquia, vol. 9. Lon don: WARBURG INSTITUTE; Turin: Nino Aragno Editore, 2006. Pp. xiv + 245, plates. ?40 (paper). This handsomely produced volume presents a dozen communications delivered at a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in London on October 18-19, 2002, Journal of the American Oriental Society 126.4 (2006) 627 This content downloaded from 185.2.32.110 on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 20:57:12 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp