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Earlier this week I sent this video to MMAHipster, who encouraged me to post it to the group. Initially I rejected this suggestion out of hand. Yes, it’s valuable to put a face and a voice to a name on the spine of a reference grammar, but this is dense I-E material and the handout never made it onto the web site, so it’s difficult to follow the line of argument. That’s why you ended up with the Jackson & Tony show instead.

I’ve reconsidered because I later located, not only the article that this presentation turned into, but also the article that Professor Melchert is riffing off of. Snappy work, even for me; I should probably sacrifice something to My Lady Ishtar.

If you’d like to see these articles, send me a chat invite and provide an e-mail address where I can send the PDF’s. I think we’ll be okay under Fair Use / educational purpose that way. Name not necessary, burner accounts fine if you want to go that way. Offer open to r/LearnHittite members only.

Conference website here —

https://fachtagung.ku.dk/

In this video you will meet Jackson Crawford (former UCLA professor, Old Norse) and Tony Yates (current UCLA professor, Hittite), talking about Hittite.

More about them —

https://jacksonwcrawford.com/

https://adyates.com/

In the unlikely event you haven’t already bankrupted yourself shopping for Hittite reference materials, you can own a reproduction cuneiform (NOT Hittite, alas) tablet!

The Penn Museum (formerly the University Museum) in Philadelphia is one of the most interesting museums I have ever visited. It is amazing — real Indiana Jones stuff. What I deeply appreciate about the joint is that it keeps all of the mummies in one room and has a big sign over the door, saying, “Beware, mummies, keep out if you don’t want to see mummies!” (Okay, I fibbed about the last part. But they do keep the dead bodies separate. They even have cat mummies.) It has an excellent specialized library, which I have visited in order to spend hours slaving over a hot xerox machine. It also has a gift shop.

If you click on the link for the gift shop, you will find on offer about half a dozen reproduction cuneiform tablets, reasonably priced, from roughly $10-$35. I have one myself, the small square black one with the white incisions, and it’s very nice.