Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind

Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications

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HITTITES AND THEIR SCRIPTS
97 already about the middle of the second millennium B.C., discounting certain opinions that are palpably absurd. Such are the view of the Italian Ribezzo that Hittite hieroglyphic writing was invented before 3000 B.C. and for over 1,000 years was excluded from official use and employed mainly on perishable material, and the recent theory of the Czech Hittitologist Hrozny that Hittite hieroglyphic writing originated perhaps at the beginning of the third millennium B.C. and was connected with the Indus Valley script, BIBLIOGRAPHY
L. Messerschmidt, Corpus Inscriptionem Hettiticarum, "MITTEIL DER VORDERASIATISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT," 1900 and 1906.
R. C. Thompson, A New Decipherment of the Hittite Hieroglyphs, Oxford, 1913
D. G. Hogarth, T. E. Lawrence and C. L. Woolley, Carchemish, 2 vols., London, 1914 and 1921.
B. Hrozný, Die Sprache der Hethiter, etc., Leipsie, 1916-1917: Ueber die Vælker und Sprachen des alten Chatti-Landes, Leipsie, 1920; Les inscriptions hittites hiéroglyphiques, 3 vols., Prague, 1933-1937.
A. E. Cowley, The Hitrites, London, 1920.
D. G. Hogarth, Hittite Seals, Oxford, 1920; The Hittite Momments of S. Asia Minor (Ramsay, Anatolian Studies), Manchester, 1923; The Hittites of Asia Minor; and The Hittiter of Syria, "THE CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY," vols. 2-3, Cambridge, 1924-1925.
C. Frank, Die sogenannten hettitischen Hieroglypheninschriften, etc, Leipsic, 1923.
W. Andra, Hettitische Inschriften auf Bleistreifen aus Assur, Leipsie, 1924.
A. Getze, Das Hethiter-Reich, Leipsic, 1928; Kulturgeschichte des alten Orients, Kleinasien, Munich, 1933; Hethiter, Churriter and Assyrer, Oslo, 1936; The Present State of Anatolian and Hittite Studier, "THE HAVERFORD SYMPOSIUM," New Haven, 1938.
J. Garstang, The Hittite Empire, London, 1929.
1. J. Gelb, Hittite Hieroglyphs, 3 vols., Chicago, 1931-1942: Inscriptions from Alishar and Vicinity, Chicago, 1935: Hittite Hieroglyphic Monuments, Chicago, 1939.
H. T. Bossert, Santaš und Kupapa, Leipsie, 1932, E. O. Forrer, Die hethitische Bilderschrift, Chicago, 1932.
E.H. Sturtevant, A Comparatite Grammar of the Hittite Language, Philadelphia, 1933: A HITTITE GLOSSARY, 2nd ed., Philadelphia, 1936.
G. Contenau, La civilisation des Hittites et des Mitanniens, Paris, 1934.
P. Meriggi. Die langsten Bauinschriften in "hethitischen" Hieroglyphen, Leipsie, 1934
G. Furlani, La religione degli Hitriti, Bologna, 1936.
J. Friedrich, Entzifferungsgeschichte der Hethitischen Hieroglyphenschrift, Leipsic, 1939.
L. Delaporte, Les Hittites, "DICTIONNAIRE DE LA BIBLE," Suppl. IV., 1941.
R. Dussaud, Les religions des Hittites, etc. (Part II of an excellent work on oriental religions: Part I being E, Dhorme's Les religions de Babylonie et d'Assyrie) Paris, 1945
Many important articles have been published in "Revte HITTITE ET ASIANIQUE," "ORIENTALISCHE LITERATURZEITUNG." and other journals.