Purifying a House from Blood

A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods (CTH 446)

Andrea Trameri (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2022
Lockwood Press (Verlag)
978-1-948488-75-4 (ISBN)

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Purifying a House from Blood provides an updated philological edition of the Hittite ritual for the ancient gods (CTH 446) with transliteration, transcription, and English translation.

In addition to the updated critical edition, which is complemented with philological notes and commentary, this work provides a comprehensive study of this important ritual text. The introduction to the text (part 1) presents a palaeographic analysis and a brief overview of the content and the main topics of interest for a reading. Part 2 offers a detailed philological commentary. Part 3 discusses in greater detail some distinctive aspects of this composition in the broader context of the Hittite ritual corpus.

Andrea Trameri is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden University.

Preface

Abbreviations

Philological Conventions

Chapter 1: Tablets, Dating, and Palaeography

1.1. Tablets and Archaeological Context

1.2. Dating: Content, Language, and Palaeography

1.3. Conclusions

Chapter 2: Content of the Purification Ritual CTH 446

2.1. Hittite Rituals and the Conception of Purity

2.2. Divine Participants

2.3. The Composite Background of CTH 446 in Historical Context

2.4. Ritual Matter and Goal

2.5. Ritual Structure and Performance

Chapter 3: Text Edition

3.1. Transliteration and Translation

3.2. Philological Notes and Commentary

Chapter 4: CTH 446 in Context: Construction and Content of Hittite Rituals

4.1. Purification Rituals and the Role of the Ancient Gods

4.2. Distinctive Ritual Practices and Formal Components

4.3. Purification Rituals for Buildings

4.4. Symbology of Blood and “Blood Rituals”

4.5. Mythological Content

4.6. Conclusions

Chapter 5: Nature and Goals of CTH 446

5.1. Structure and Content: The “Compilation” Hypothesis

5.2. Discussion

Chapter 6: Is CTH 446 a Literary Text?

6.1. Unicity of CTH?

6.2. CTH 446 in the Pragmatic Context of Hittite Rituals

Glossary

References

Subject Index

Index of Texts Cited

Concordance

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2021
Verlagsort	Atlanta
Sprache	englisch; Hittite
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	706 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-948488-75-2 / 1948488752
ISBN-13	978-1-948488-75-4 / 9781948488754
Zustand	Neuware