Onomasticon of the Hittite Pantheon (2 Vols): Part One & Part Two (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East) (English and Indo-European Edition)

To find your way in the vast Hittite Pantheon is by no means an easy task. In his Onomasticon of the Hittite Pantheon Ben van Gessel lists all Hittite gods as known from primary sources. Their names are listed as written in Hittite, Sumerian and Akkadian. Moreover, deities not mentioned by a proper name are given. The work ends with the unclassifiable fragments of names. Apart from answering questions about the (often confusing) orthography of the gods' names, each entry categorizes information on their epithets, shrines, priests and servants, cult places, attributes and feasts, as well as about the actual locations in the texts . Where necessary, the author refers to relevant literature. ONOMASTICON OF THE HITTITE PANTHEON Contents Part One Introduction List of abbreviations Divine Names not Sumerographically or Akkadographically written Part Two Divine Names Sumerographically and Akkadographically written Deities not mentioned by a proper name Unclassifiable fragments of Divine Names Hurrian Divine Attributes HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK This Onomasticon is an indispensable reference work listing the Hittite gods as known from primary sources. Besides the listing of the proper names of the deities, all other available information on their cults as well as actual location in the texts and relevant literature is given. This work is a comprehensive reference work concerning the Hittite pantheon. The easy-reference glossaries contain all the (word) forms quoted from Hittite texts in the Onomasticon.