On the Problems of Karatepe

The Hieroglyphic Text

Bibliographic Data

ID10961306
AuthorsJ D Hawkins (corresponding author), A Morpurgo Davies
Year1978
Volume28
Pages103-119
Publication date1978-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnatolian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-1546 • E-ISSN: 2048-0849
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3642746
OpenAlexW2119519260
LanguageEN
Citations received9

The great bilingual of Karatepe is one of the best understood inscriptions in Hieroglyphic Luwian, though not all problems have yet been solved. On the one hand some readings remain uncertain, since no full set of photographs is available, and on the other hand the grammatical and semantic interpretation is not always clear in spite of the help provided by the Phoenician version. In this paper we propose to tackle some of the problems still open, taking as a starting point the text and interpretation published by Piero Meriggi in his Manuale (II/1, 69 ff.), which at present offers the most complete and up-to-date version of the inscription. In transliterating we adopt the values listed in Anatolian Studies XXV (1975), 153–5, which we also used in our transliteration and discussion of the last part of KARATEPE ( JRAS 1975/2, 124 ff.). We here use the same section and word numbering as in the latter contribution

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