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The Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project
- INTRODUCTION
- ANNUAL REPORTS
- EDITORS' CURRICULUM VITAE
- Electronic CHICAGO HITTITE DICTIONARY (e-CHD)
- RELATED LINKS
INTRODUCTION
The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span (c. 1650-1180 B.C.). The vast majority of Hittite tablets were excavated from the ruins of the ancient Hittite capital Hattusa located near the modern Turkish town of Boghazköy about 210 kilometers east of Ankara.
Scientific excavation of these ruins by a German expedition began in 1906. About 10,000 clay tablets inscribed with the familiar Assyro-Babylonian script were recovered. Although some were written in the Akkadian language and could be read immediately, most were in an unknown language, correctly assumed to be Hittite. Within ten years the language had been deciphered, and a sketch of its grammar published. Gradually, the interational community of scholars, led by the Germans, expanded the knowledge of the language. The number of common Hittite words that one could translate with reasonable certainty increased steadily. Glossaries published in 1936 by Edgar Sturtevant (in English) and in 1952 by Johannes Friedrich (in German) admirably served the needs of their contemporaries. Yet today, seventy-five years after the decipherment, there still exists no complete dictionary of the Hittite language.
The Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project (CHD) was officially started in 1975 with the awarding of an NEH grant to Harry A. Hoffner and Hans G. Güterbock, the editors. It was conceived in answer to a recognized need for a Hittite-English lexical tool, a concordance for lexicographical research for all parts of the corpus of Hittite texts.
Annual Reports
- 2007-2008 Annual Report
- 2006-2007 Annual Report
- 2005-2006 Annual Report
- 2004-2005 Annual Report
- 2003-2004 Annual Report
- 2002-2003 Annual Report
- 2001-2002 Annual Report
- 2000-2001 Annual Report
- 1999-2000 Annual Report
- 1998-1999 Annual Report
- 1997-1998 Annual Report
- 1996-1997 Annual Report
- 1995-1996 Annual Report
- 1994-1995 Annual Report
- 1993-1994 Annual Report
- 1992-1993 Annual Report
- 1991-1992 Annual Report
Links
Hittite and Anatolian materials are available on-line at the following sites:
- Hethitologie Portal Mainz
- Hatti - Association des Amis de la Civilisation hittite
- The Hittite Home Page - Billie Jean Collins.
- Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
- Abzu: Guide to resources for the study of the ancient Near East available on the internet
Revised: May 29, 2009
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