The Old Babylonian loan contract "Aegyptus 10.1" (= Boson 1936 n° 300)

The short article offers an updated transliteration, along with a commentary and a photograph, of an Old Babylonian tablet (known as "Aegyptus 10.1") belonging to the cuneiform collection of the library of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan

Assyrian camels and Luwian officials

Short study on the words for "camel" and "camel rider" in Assyrian and Luwian, their diffusion and a personal name deriving from them

A Study in the Syntax of the Luwian Language

he Ancient Anatolian corpora represent the earliest documented examples of the Indo-European languages. In this book, an analysis of the syntactic structure of the Luwian phrases, clauses and sentences is attempted, basing on a phrase-structural approach that entails a mild application of the theoretical framework of generative grammar. While obvious limits exist as regards the use of theory-driven models to the study and description of ancient corpus-languages, this books aims at demonstrating and illustrating the main configurational features of the Luwian syntax

On the Aegean-Anatolian Historical and Linguistic Interface in the Final Bronze Age

In this contribution, some very general observations on the topic of the contacts between the Aegean and Anatolia will be made, based on the most recent works in the literature1 and on the ongoing research carried out by the team of the ERC project PALaC

Soul and Stele in Hittite and Luwian

In this paper1), I will examine a group of words connected to the semantic areas of \u201cstele\u201d (or \u201caltar\u201d) and \u201csoul\u201d in Luwian and Hittite

The Position of Determiners in Ancient Greek and Luwian: between syntax and information flow

Studio sulla sintassi dei dimostrativi in greco antico e in luvio, con riferimenti alla grammatica a costituenti

On the names Iyaya and Iya and their late diffusion in the Ancient Near East

Iyaya is the name of a goddess of the pre-classical Anatolian pantheon. In this note, I will review the data that have been collected to support the hypothesis of an Iron Age continuation of the cult and name of Iyaya

KUB 37.122: A MESOPOTAMIAN LEXICAL LIST?

In this paper, we will offer an edition and commentary of the fragment KUB 37.122, usually referred to as a Samenliste, but generally not included among the lexical lists from the Hattusa archives. We will also discuss some peculiarities of the contents, the syllabary, and the graphemics of the text, and we will try to contextualize the text within the complex scenario of the Akkadian texts written, or copied, in the Hittite capital city

Theonyms, Panthea and Syncretisms in Hittite Anatolia and Northern Syria Proceedings of the TeAI Workshop Held in Verona, March 25-26, 2022

The topic of the Anatolian panthea in the Bronze Age deals with Hattian, Hittite, Palaean, Luwian and Hurrian gods who have been worshiped in the Kingdom of Ḫatti. In such a context, along with trying to keep a balanced and methodologically-aware approach in our original research, we realized that a multi-authored work such as the present volume, with papers written by some of the major experts of Anatolian religious history, would represent an invaluable contribution to the advancement of a complex and vast field. This collection of essays is the result of the workshop Theonyms, Panthea and Syncretisms in Hittite Anatolia and Northern Syria, held at the University of Verona on 25th and 26th March 2022. Colleagues with different areas of expertise pertaining to the topic of Anatolian religions contributed to an extremely successful event

Phrase Structure and Ancient Anatolian languages: Methodology and challenges for a Luwian syntactic annotation

For the Marie Sk\u142odowska Curie(MSCA) funded project \u201cSLUW \u2013 Acomputer aided study of the (morpho)-syntax of Luwian\u201d (European Grant Nr. 655954) a collection of phrasestructure trees from the Luwian corpus iscurrently being prepared. Luwian is alanguage belonging to the Anatolianbranch of Indo-European; its structuresare different from those of English andthe language itself is partly obscure. Thepresent paper will describe some specialneeds, open challenges and methodologiesrelevant for the annotation of phrasestructureof Luwian