Flugel Memorial Volume (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ... THE HITTITE TEXT ON THE TARCONDEMUS BOSS George Hempl It May be proper, by way of introduction, to state that it is not my present purpose to edit a number of pictographic Hittite texts, or to present anything like a treatise on Hittite pictographic writing. My object is to deal with the Tarcondemus Boss only, this being the generally recognized key to the pictographic texts. But in presenting for interpretation a brief specimen of an unread tongue, one immediately finds himself embarrassed by the necessity of introducing other specimens by way of illustration or corroboration. This renders the presentation of the subject more or less complex and involved, which is to be regretted but can not be avoided. For I deem it necessary to show that the graphic and phonological features involved in my explanation of the Tarcondemus Boss are general and normal; that is, that they are not peculiar to this document, and therefore possibly adventitious or fortuitous and thus without conclusive force. If the illustrative material thus introduced has independent intrinsic value, so much the better; but I do not introduce it here for its own sake. I aim to present nothing about which I feel uncertain. When we consider, however, the pioneer character of the work and the fact that I am not a professional Hellenist, it can not be expected that I have avoided errors, and I shall welcome correction. In justice to myself I may add that up to two months ago, when I got access to the Corpus,8 my work was necessarily based upon the imperfect texts in Wright's and Conder's books. I hope, however, that no traces of this remain. All explanations that I present of Hittite characters or words I alone am responsible for, unless the contrary is expressly stated. Still, it is easy to dece...