The Kikkuli Text. Hittite Training Instructions for Chariot Horses in the Second Half of the 2nd Millennium B.C. and Their Interdisciplinary Context

Статья // Опубликована на сайте The Long Riders Guild Academic Foundation, 2009. — 21 с.Among the cuneiform tablets found in the ancient Near East and the adjacent areas, the literary genre of the Hittite instructions for the training of chariot horses has become - as Johannes A. Potratz (1963, 181) noted - something of a legend in Hittitology including related philological and linguistic disciplines as well as Near Eastern Archaeology and Egyptology. Together with the Middle-Assyrian instructions on horse training from Aššur we are provided with relatively rare first hand information about certain aspects on how training concepts of chariot horses in the second half of the 2nd millennium have been composed, structured and archived by the Hittite and Middle Assyrian scribes.