Il libro contiene l’edizione filologica del corpus di testi ittiti attualmente raccolti sotto il numero 631 del Catalogue des Textes Hittites di E. Laroche. Essi costituiscono la descrizione di cerimonie religiose celebrate in connessione con il fenomeno atmosferico del tuono, interpretato come manifestazione del dio della tempesta, la massima divinità del pantheon ittita. I documenti di maggiore estensione, presentati in traslitterazione e traduzione, sono corredati da un commento filologico, teso a metterne in luce la struttura e le peculiarità lessicali e grammaticali, e sono introdotti da una analisi della datazione condotta su base paleografica. I frammenti minori sono presentati in trascrizione e, laddove possibile, in traduzione. Di ciascuno viene discussa la possibile attribuzione al corpus sulla base della struttura e del contenuto. L’edizione critica dei testi è preceduta da un capitolo introduttivo in cui viene discussa la natura delle feste legate al tuono e la loro posizione nel quadro del calendario cultuale ittita.
This book is the result of many years of research that the author has devoted to the corpus of Hittite texts generally labelled as "cult inventories". This term defines the particular documents dealing with the cult management of local towns and villages, issued on a regular basis by the Hittite central administration to regulate and keep track of a complex mosaic of peripheral cults. These texts can be dated, with rare exceptions, to the so-called Late Empire Period, and represent an invaluable source for our understanding of many crucial mechanisms of the religious administration of the Hittite Kingdom. Previously, Hittite cult inventories have been the subject of important studies, such as C. Charter's unpublished dissertation ("Hittite cult inventories", Chicago, 1962), or J. Haazenboos' more recent monograph (The Organization of the Anatolian Local Cults during the Thirteenth Century B.C.: An Appraisal of the Hittite Cult Inventories, Leiden: Brill, 2003), but this new study offers a reappraisal of the topic, and a systematic investigation of many aspects of the corpus hitherto neglected. One major problem for scholars working on Hittite cult inventories was how to find an adequate categorization that would do justice to the complexity of the documentary material. In his book, Cammarosano attempts a typological classification based essentially on the layout of the tablets and the occurrence of a selected number of distinctive elements, such as information on the gods and cult images, or descriptions of festivals. Combining these elements, he succeeds in providing a convincing classification of the sources, whose heuristic potential is certified by the amount of new insights resulting from the research. The book is divided essentially into two parts, preceded by a short introduction (chapter 1), where the semantics of the expression "Hittite local cults" are discussed, with methodological considerations. The first part (chapters 2-6) brings together a series of detailed studies on several aspects of the Hittite local cults, concerning both the form and content of the inventories as a textual genre. Chapter 2, besides analysing the current state of research on the texts, focuses on the problem of the nature and purpose of the so-called cult inventories, and the dating and geographical scope of the sources. Particularly important is the critical discussion of the theory, often advanced by scholarsalbeit not always convincinglythat the cult inventories are the product of an attempt at "religious reform" by King Tutḫaliya IV. The author rightly reasserts the idea, discussed at length in a 2012 publication (M. Cammarosano, "Hittite cult inventories. Part two: the dating of the texts and the alleged 'cult reorganization' of Tudhaliya IV", Altorientalische Forschungen, 39/ 1, 3-37), that nothing in the preserved sources suggests a centralized process of systematization, aimed at imposing a "standard" pattern of rites over the multi-faceted panorama of local cults. On the contrary, the prescriptive measures of the so...
The nature of the administration of sacred time in Hittite Anatolia represents a complex problem, which has received little attention until recent years. This paper provides an overview of the topic, reconsidering the Hittite religious calendar as a whole and analysing some of the main issues connected with the Hittite calendrical system, such as the problem of the beginning of the year, the lunar nature of the Hittite month and the alleged existence of a system of intercalation.
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