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Animals in Hittite worldview, and their relations to gods, humans and things, were surveyed several times in the past. The aim of the present article, however, is to focus on one aspect that has not been treated exhaustively to date: the matter of categorization and hierarchical division within human-divine-bestial interfaces. Hence, I do not offer below an extensive survey of animals in the Hittite world, but only concentrate on the issue of animal categorization in Hittite perspectives.
The transliteration conventions used in this article are the following: Hittite, AKKADIAN, SUMERIAN, DETERMINATIVES (except for d). Sigla: […]: restoration of lost text; ┌…┐, └…┘: restoration of partially lost text; [o]: a break in the text allowing the restoration of one sign; <…>: addition to text erroneously omitted by scribe; x: traces of illegible sign; ?: uncertain reading or restoration; !: emendation of original text; :: double-wedge marker (“Glossenkeil”). Abbreviations follow The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, volumes L-N (1989): xv–xxviii, P (1994): vii-xxvi, Š/1 (2002): vi–viii and Š/2 (2005).
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Peled, I. (2019). Categorization and Hierarchy. In: Mattila, R., Ito, S., Fink, S. (eds) Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World. Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24388-3_5
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