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A Note on the Jewellery Listed in the Inventory of Manninni (CTH 504)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

K. R. Maxwell-Hyslop
K. R. Maxwell-Hyslop
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Professori Doctissimo, qui nil hethiticae linguae a se alienum putat, auctor amicissima hanc disceptatiunculam grato animo dedicat.
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The lack of stratified examples of Hittite jewellery emphasizes the importance of the evidence afforded by inventories such as the Inventory of Manninni recently published by Dr S. Košak. Although many of the words designating specific pieces of jewellery or goldwork cannot yet be translated, a study of the inventories combined with contemporary archaeological evidence can assist in forming a more detailed assessment of the products of Hittite jewellers and gold workers. It is possible to make some tentative suggestions concerning the identification of different types of jewellery mentioned in the Manninni inventory with reference to excavated pieces, some of which, although originating from sites beyond the area of direct Hittite influence yet can be dated to a period contemporary with or slightly earlier than the Hittite inventories. The Manninni inventory has been assigned to the 13th century B.C. by F. Kammenhuber but in Košak's view it could have been composed at any time during the later Hittite Empire.

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Research Article
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Anatolian Studies , Volume 30 , December 1980 , pp. 85 - 90
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1980

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References

1 The translations used here are those published by Košak, in Linguistica XVIII (Ljubljana 1978Google Scholar), to whom I am grateful for much assistance. His informative commentaries should be consulted by all archaeologists interested in the identification of metal objects mentioned in the texts. See also Kempinski, A. and Košak, S., Hittite Metal Inventories (CTH 242) and their economic implications, in Tel Aviv 4, 1–2, 1977Google Scholar.

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