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ONE of the problems encountered in reading cuneiform tablets, particularly those from Mesopotamia, arises from the fact that a given sign can have more than one phonetic value. In antiquity, this gave occasional opportunity to scribal creative impulses, whimsey, and, sometimes, mischievousness. When we look at Hittite and the Hittite scribal practices, we note a tendency for one sign to have one phonetic value when used in writing Hittite, as distinct from non-Hittite, words. The problem of reading a text in Hittite, then, is likely to be simpler than reading a text in Akkadian, given equal facility with both languages. Because Hittite exhibits a tendency to simplify the matter of reading by limiting the phonetic value or values of signs, a grouping of signs into a word or words can pose a problem, in that one expects those signs to represent sounds that, for one or the other reason, seem not to ring true. I believe that the divine name found in KUB XII 2 i 20 and written with the signs DINGIR I9 EL KU U9 is a case in point. What little has been published on this name shows, more than anywhere else to my knowledge, the tendency to read the name in accordance with the first, or norm

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Author

Charles Carter

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1980

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)