Lecture: Kikkuli, Master Trainer from the Land of Mitanni скачать в хорошем качестве

Lecture: Kikkuli, Master Trainer from the Land of Mitanni

Kikkuli wrote advice for training chariot horses for the Hittite Kingdom ca. 1400 BCE. He is the earliest horse trainer to have left evidence of his methods. The story of the deciphering the tablets, translating and understanding their texts is unravelled by two experts in the field, Dr Peter Raulwing and Professor Theo P.J. van den Hout. Theo van den Hout received his PhD in Hittite and Anatolian languages from the University of Amsterdam in 1989 after a BA and MA in Classics, Comparative Indo-European linguistics and Anatolian studies at both Leiden and Amsterdam. Currently he is Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Languages at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary (CHD) since 2000. He is the author of several books, most recently “A History of Hittite Literacy. Writing and Reading in Late Bronze Age Hittite Anatolia (1650-1200 BC)” (Cambridge UP 2020) and many articles. Peter Raulwing studied Historical Comparative Linguistics, Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and Indo-Iranian Languages. His research focus and expertise are focused on two areas: First, on the cultural, social, and military history of horses and chariots in the ancient Near East and adjacent areas (Egypt, Anatolia, Eurasia, North and Eastern Europe) focused on linguistic, archaeological, archaeozoological, historical, and other sources including training of chariot horses. And second, on the history of research (Wissenschafts- und Rezeptionsgeschichte) in scholarship of the 19th–20th century in ancient Near Eastern and Anatolian Studies, Egyptology, and Historical Comparative Linguistics. He has published several articles on the Hittite Horse Texts, edited Mary Littauer’s and Joost Crouwel’s Selected Writings in 2002 and co-edited studies in honor of both of them. While interested in all aspects of Late Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia his work focuses on Hittite culture, history, and language. Besides his work on the dictionary his recent personal interests are ancient record management, literacy and writing in Hittite society as well as Hittite visual culture.