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DOI Artikel:Sayce, A. H.: The hittite inscriptions of Kappadokia and their decipherment
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THE HITTITE INSCRIPTIONS
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sobeti der Barbaren und daim dicse selbst. Darin môgen wir gleichzeitig einen Weg
zur weiteren Erklarung unseres Wortes angedeutet finden.
Strassburg </e, 13/6 1891. W. spiegelberg.
THE HITTITE INSCRIPTIONS OE KAPPADOKIA AND TIIEIR DECIPHERMENT
BY
A.-H. Saycje.
The Hittite inscriptions copied in Asia Minor, in the suramer of 1890, by Messrs.
Ramsay, Hogarth and Headlam, are of high importance. They not only increase the
amount of materials at the disposai of the decipherer, but furnish several factswhich are
of peculiar value to him. For some years past I had been confronted, as it were, by a
wall over which I could not climb ; the bilingual boss of Tarkondèmos had led me a little
distance and had then left me in darkness; and I began to despair of ever being able to
solve the Hittite problem. But the new inscriptions published in the Recueil, along with
tliis Paper, hâve allowed us to surmount the wall, and to advance much further in the
pàth of decipherment than I had imagined to be possible a few months ago.
Some of the inscriptions discovered by the three Oxford explorers were already
known, but they had either not been copied at ail or else the copies were so imperfect as
to be practically worthless. The long and important inscription of Bulgar Maden, for
instance, had been firstnoticed by Mr. Davis, but it wasreserved for Messrs. Hogartm
and Headlam to make the first copy of it as well as take a squeeze.
The inscriptions of Ivriz hâve more than once been described and copied, but we
now have for the first time accurate facsimiles of them, as well as photographs which do
«orne justice to the magnificent monument of Hittite art with which they are associated.
The inscriptions of Gurûn were discovered by Sir Charles Wilson some years ago,
and photographs of them were sent to me about three years since; but it is only now
that with the combined assistance of eye-copies, squeezes and photographs we are able
to gain some idea of the nature of thèse very decayed texts. Lastly the inscription of Bor
(or Tyana) was first seen by Prof. Ramsay in 1882; but the copy which he then made
of it was too lmrried to be more than approximately correct, and the copy published
herewith from two excellent squeezes is consequently the first thoroughly accurate one.
The inscription of Andaval, which apparently came from the samo ancient édifice
at Bor as the inscription of Tyana, was discovered by the Oxford explorers last summer.
The copy is published from a squeeze, and leaves nothing to be desired. The remarkable
sculptures of Fraktin, with the inscriptions that accompany them, are also new. They
resemble those of Boghaz Keui, and, as Prof. Ramsay observes, settle the question as
♦n » n »das Kaudcrwalsehen der Himjaro Kàmil 363, 2 wird &*Joh>]9 erklart »dass die Sprache
klingt wic dio <ler Auslaiider«.
4:i
sobeti der Barbaren und daim dicse selbst. Darin môgen wir gleichzeitig einen Weg
zur weiteren Erklarung unseres Wortes angedeutet finden.
Strassburg </e, 13/6 1891. W. spiegelberg.
THE HITTITE INSCRIPTIONS OE KAPPADOKIA AND TIIEIR DECIPHERMENT
BY
A.-H. Saycje.
The Hittite inscriptions copied in Asia Minor, in the suramer of 1890, by Messrs.
Ramsay, Hogarth and Headlam, are of high importance. They not only increase the
amount of materials at the disposai of the decipherer, but furnish several factswhich are
of peculiar value to him. For some years past I had been confronted, as it were, by a
wall over which I could not climb ; the bilingual boss of Tarkondèmos had led me a little
distance and had then left me in darkness; and I began to despair of ever being able to
solve the Hittite problem. But the new inscriptions published in the Recueil, along with
tliis Paper, hâve allowed us to surmount the wall, and to advance much further in the
pàth of decipherment than I had imagined to be possible a few months ago.
Some of the inscriptions discovered by the three Oxford explorers were already
known, but they had either not been copied at ail or else the copies were so imperfect as
to be practically worthless. The long and important inscription of Bulgar Maden, for
instance, had been firstnoticed by Mr. Davis, but it wasreserved for Messrs. Hogartm
and Headlam to make the first copy of it as well as take a squeeze.
The inscriptions of Ivriz hâve more than once been described and copied, but we
now have for the first time accurate facsimiles of them, as well as photographs which do
«orne justice to the magnificent monument of Hittite art with which they are associated.
The inscriptions of Gurûn were discovered by Sir Charles Wilson some years ago,
and photographs of them were sent to me about three years since; but it is only now
that with the combined assistance of eye-copies, squeezes and photographs we are able
to gain some idea of the nature of thèse very decayed texts. Lastly the inscription of Bor
(or Tyana) was first seen by Prof. Ramsay in 1882; but the copy which he then made
of it was too lmrried to be more than approximately correct, and the copy published
herewith from two excellent squeezes is consequently the first thoroughly accurate one.
The inscription of Andaval, which apparently came from the samo ancient édifice
at Bor as the inscription of Tyana, was discovered by the Oxford explorers last summer.
The copy is published from a squeeze, and leaves nothing to be desired. The remarkable
sculptures of Fraktin, with the inscriptions that accompany them, are also new. They
resemble those of Boghaz Keui, and, as Prof. Ramsay observes, settle the question as
♦n » n »das Kaudcrwalsehen der Himjaro Kàmil 363, 2 wird &*Joh>]9 erklart »dass die Sprache
klingt wic dio <ler Auslaiider«.