This is the first volume in a new series, Chicago Hittite
Dictionary Supplements, designed to augment and supplement the work
of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary project. Future volumes will
continue to bring tablets written in the Hittite language to light.
The volume presented here (ABoT II) is the continuation of the
cuneiform edition Ankara Arkeoloji Muezesinde Bulunan Bogazkoy
Tabletleri (ABoT) published by Kemal Balkan in 1948. The Hittite
tablets, which were acquired by the Ankara Anadolu Medeniyetleri
Muezesi by purchase and donations, or collected as surface finds,
bear the siglum "AnAr." The best-preserved and attractive pieces of
these tablets have been made accessible to the scholarly public
through the publication of ABoT; the others, however, were not
considered for publication at that time. Since the series of ABoT
was later discontinued, such fragments, mostly still useful and in
reasonable condition, remained untouched in the Ankara Museum for
years. When Rukiye Akdodan decided to make copies of nearly four
hundred AnAr fragments and publish them as ABoT II, an agreement of
cooperation with Oguz Soysal for the preparation of the catalogue
of this work was made in the year 2005. Although the cuneiform
copies in other similar works like ABoT and IBoT I-IV were made by
Turkish scholars (K. Balkan, M. C. H. Kzlyay, and M. Eren), the
support of foreign scholars (H. G. Gueterbock and H. A. Hoffner)
was still sought. ABoT II, on the other hand, is a fully Turkish
cuneiform edition as a welcome result of a joint Ankara-Chicago
effort. The small size of most of the fragments made it
particularly difficult to determine the text genres and to place
them in the text categories assigned in E. Laroche's Catalogue des
textes hittites (CTH). Nevertheless, after two years of intensive
work and with the support of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary
Projects lexical files, it has been possible to find many
duplicates of well-known compositions from Bogazkoy. This volume
will certainly enrich the Hittite text corpus. The represented text
genres herein include historical, administrative and technical,
lexical, mythological texts, hymns and prayers, rituals, cult
administration and inventory texts, divination documents, festival
descriptions, and compositions in languages other than Hittite
(Hattian, Hurrian, Luwian, Sumerian and Akkadian). With the present
edition of 389 pieces in cuneiform copies, there are almost no more
AnAr fragments remaining in the Ankara Museum that would be worth
publishing.
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