Advanced Readings in Hittite: Non-Traditional Economic Texts

Undergraduate / Graduate

The number of "pure" economic texts in the Hittite corpus is astonishingly small. This does not mean that information on the Hittite economy cannot be extracted from other sources. This class will focus on the economic information contained in texts that are not traditionally considered economic documents, among these the votive texts, magical texts with material lists, court cases, and of course the land-grant documents.