Building Inscriptions of Carchemish

The Long Wall of Sculpture and Great Staircase

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10960909
AutoresJ D Hawkins (autor correspondente)
Ano1972
Volume22
Páginas87-114
Data de publicação1972-12-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnatolian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0066-1546 • E-ISSN: 2048-0849
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3642555
OpenAlexW2318859621
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas3

With the publication in 1952 of Carchemish , part III, Sir Leonard Woolley attempted to allocate the excavated buildings and monuments to reigns and dates. For the epigraphic evidence of the Hieroglyphic Hittite inscriptions, he relied upon the chapter contributed to the publication by R. D. Barnett. Here Barnett constructed a chronological framework based on the names and genealogies appearing in the inscriptions. He was, however, working in the immediate aftermath of the discovery of Karatepe, before even the preliminary publication of the bilingual was complete, so that a number of his readings required subsequent correction. Detailed epigraphic criticism was offered particularly by Güterbock and Meriggi in their reviews of the volume. The efforts of all these scholars considerably advanced our knowledge of the chronology of the buildings and sculpture, and subsequent treatments of the art and archaeology of Carchemish have naturally relied heavily upon them. More recently however, the study of the hieroglyphic inscriptions, which are for the most part concerned mainly with the erection of buildings and sculptures, has fallen behind that of the monuments to which they relate. This remains true even after the new edition of some of these inscriptions published by Meriggi in what is primarily a philological study. It would therefore seem desirable to present editions of the Carchemish building inscriptions as complete as their fragmentary nature and persistent difficulties interpretation will permit; and on this basis to review the chronology of the buildings and sculptures described therein. It is the purpose of this article therefore to examine the inscriptions relating to the Long Wall of Sculpture and the Great Staircase, which elucidate to some extent the history of the construction of that complex

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Chronology · Epigraphy · Hittite language · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Philology · Sculpture · Sociology · Textual criticism · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Classics · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy