Theo Van Den Hout
Biographic Data
| ID | 507409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theo Van Den Hout |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theo Van Den |
| FAMILY NAME | Hout |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DEN HOUT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Hittites
Hittite Society, Economy, and Rituals
The ecology of Late Bronze Age Hittite Anatolia favored a predominantly wealthfinanced economic model, in which the elite sought to control the procurement of and trade in all precious materials. Besides this, staples were managed through a more decentralized system. The precious materials allowed the elite to display their riches and position of power, especially at cultic celebrations throughout the state. This is evidenced through the so-calle…
Türkmen-Karahöyük 1
In this article, the authors present a first edition of the recently found inscription TÜRKMEN-KARAHÖYÜK 1, propose an eighth-century dating and explore some of the consequences of this date for the group of inscriptions mentioning Hartapu, son of Mursili
In the Land of a Thousand Gods
Güterbock, H. G. (1908–2000)
The life and achievements of Hittitologist Hans Gustav Güterbock.
In Royal Circles
This essay advocates a distinction between scribal craftsmen and scholar-scribes, the latter mostly coming from the elite circles of the kingdom and increasingly, as their career advanced, involved in scholarly endeavors rather than tablet production. It is these scholars who were probably also responsible for the so-called tablet inventories (“catalogs”)
Memorization and Hittite Ritual
Scholarly discussion of Hittite ritual texts in recent years has centered around scribal context and textual transmission. Using the method already demonstrated by Paul Delnero for Sumerian literary texts, the authors show that certain Hittite rituals were memorized, and that the variations among some exemplars resulted from errors in memory. The influence of conscious redaction on these texts must therefore be reassessed, and the questions of te…
A New Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscription from Pancarlı Höyük
Zwei weitere Beamtensiegel aus Boğazköy
Vorwort der Herausgeber
Buchbesprechungen
The Purity of Kingship
Religions of Asia Minor
Geschichte des Hethitischen Reiches
Die Hethitische Frühzeit
Studio Historiae Ardens
A New Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscription from Pancarlı Höyük
Religions of Asia Minor
Türkmen-Karahöyük 1
In this article, the authors present a first edition of the recently found inscription TÜRKMEN-KARAHÖYÜK 1, propose an eighth-century dating and explore some of the consequences of this date for the group of inscriptions mentioning Hartapu, son of Mursili
Studio Historiae Ardens
Geschichte des Hethitischen Reiches
Die Hethitische Frühzeit
The Purity of Kingship
Religions of Asia Minor
Buchbesprechungen
Zwei weitere Beamtensiegel aus Boğazköy
Vorwort der Herausgeber
Güterbock, H. G. (1908–2000)
The life and achievements of Hittitologist Hans Gustav Güterbock.
In Royal Circles
This essay advocates a distinction between scribal craftsmen and scholar-scribes, the latter mostly coming from the elite circles of the kingdom and increasingly, as their career advanced, involved in scholarly endeavors rather than tablet production. It is these scholars who were probably also responsible for the so-called tablet inventories (“catalogs”)
Memorization and Hittite Ritual
Scholarly discussion of Hittite ritual texts in recent years has centered around scribal context and textual transmission. Using the method already demonstrated by Paul Delnero for Sumerian literary texts, the authors show that certain Hittite rituals were memorized, and that the variations among some exemplars resulted from errors in memory. The influence of conscious redaction on these texts must therefore be reassessed, and the questions of te…
A New Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscription from Pancarlı Höyük
In the Land of a Thousand Gods
Hittite Society, Economy, and Rituals
The ecology of Late Bronze Age Hittite Anatolia favored a predominantly wealthfinanced economic model, in which the elite sought to control the procurement of and trade in all precious materials. Besides this, staples were managed through a more decentralized system. The precious materials allowed the elite to display their riches and position of power, especially at cultic celebrations throughout the state. This is evidenced through the so-calle…
Türkmen-Karahöyük 1
In this article, the authors present a first edition of the recently found inscription TÜRKMEN-KARAHÖYÜK 1, propose an eighth-century dating and explore some of the consequences of this date for the group of inscriptions mentioning Hartapu, son of Mursili
The Hittites
History (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Ancient Near East History (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Classics (5 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (5 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works)