This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Among the rituals kept in the archives of the Hittite capital, more than twenty are concerned with birth and its difficulties. This work transliterates and translates these texts, and provides them with a commentary discussing anthropological as well as philological questions. An introduction sketches the treatment of birth in Hittite texts of various genra, while a summary outlines Hittite 'obstetrical' practice as it may be reconstructed from all available cuneiform sources. One chapter is devoted to the character and the role of the human personnel and divinities attendant at birth, and particular attention is given to the vexin problem of the DINGIR.MAH (MES/HI.A). A glossary of the vocabulary appearing in the Hittite birth rituals is included. 333 pp. Englisch.

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Title: Hittite Birth Rituals
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Publication Date: 1983
Language: German
ISBN 10: 3447023104
ISBN 13: 9783447023108
Binding: Taschenbuch
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: Neu
Dimensions: 240 millimeters width by 170 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
Weight: 669 grams

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Among the rituals kept in the archives of the Hittite capital, more than twenty are concerned with birth and its difficulties. This work transliterates and translates these texts, and provides them with a commentary discussing anthropological as well as philological questions. An introduction sketches the treatment of birth in Hittite texts of various genra, while a summary outlines Hittite "obstetrical" practice as it may be reconstructed from all available cuneiform sources. One chapter is devoted to the character and the role of the human personnel and divinities attendant at birth, and particular attention is given to the vexin problem of the DINGIR.MAH (MEs/HI.A). A glossary of the vocabulary appearing in the Hittite birth rituals is included.

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