Ipamati kistamati pari tumatimis: Luwian and Hittite Studies Presented to J.

• Author: Beal, Richard H.
• Position: Book review

ipamati kistamati pari tumatimis: Luwian and Hittite Studies Presented to J. David Hawkins on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Edited by ITAMAR SINGER. Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology. Monograph Series, vol. 28. Tel Aviv: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY. 2010. Pp. xx + 262, illus. $65.

This Festschrift honors David Hawkins, professor of Ancient Anatolian Languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Assyriologist, Hittitologist. and the world's leading expert in the Luwian language and its unique hieroglyphic script. On the latter field of study his career has had a transformative effect. So broad are David's interests that this is one of two Fest-schriften dedicated to him for his 70th birthday. This one contains articles by scholars of Luwian, Hittite, and other things Anatolian, while David's Assyriological side is honored by twelve of his Assyriological colleagues in the journal Iraq. vol. 72 (2010).

The volume under review begins with a brief biography of Prof. Hawkins, followed by a list of his publications.

Turning to the contributions, Sanna Aro discusses the evidence for "Luwians in Aleppo," concluding that "Luwian-speaking Hittites" were far more prominent in the make-up of early Iron Age Aleppo than has previously been allowed. It is one of the hazards of the use of those sentence-interrupting "anthropological style" references, which have been progressively infiltrating historical writings in recent years, that they become totally mysterious if one does not remember to add them to the bibliography. At the very least. I note that Guterbock 1954 (p. 2), Klengel et al. 1999 (p. 3), van den Hout 2006 (pp. 2, 4), van den Hour 1998 (p. 3), and Yener 2005 (p. 5. n. 12) are missing. Van den Hout 2006 could be any of nine articles written by that author appearing in that year. The correct references are H. G. Guterbock, "The Hurrian Element in the Hittite Empire," Cahiers d'Histoire Mondiale = Journal of World History 2 (1954): 383-94: Horst Klengel et al., Geschiclite des het-hitischen Reiches (Leiden: Brill. 1999); Th. van den Hout, "Halpaziti. Konig von Aleppo," AoF 25 (1998): 68-74; van den Hout, "Institutions. Vernaculars, Publics: The Case of Second-Millennium Anatolia," in Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures, ed. Seth Sanders (Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2006), 221-62: Kutlu Aslihan Yener et al.. The Amuq Valley Regional Projects, vol. 1: Surveys in the Plain of Antioch and the Orontes Delta, Turkey, 1995-2002 (Chicago: The Oriental Institute. 2005). Oddly, Y preceeds W in the bibliography. Finally, "R. Bryce" 1998 refers to the same person as "T. R. Bryce" 1992.

Gojko Barjamovic discusses "Sites. Routes and Historical Geography in Central Anatolia," based on his close study of the Old Assyrian merchant documents and on his personal travels in the area. He suggests that Purushanda, perhaps the second most important city of pre-Hittite Anatolia, is not to be found at Acemhoyuk as...