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Title: Hittite [.Sup.Gis/Gi.Kurtal(I)], Akkadian Nab-Bu, And the Cuneiform Sign Nab (Report)
Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Release Date : January 01, 2006
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
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J. Puhvel gave in his Hittite Etymological Dictionary, Volume K (Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 1997), 227, under the entry kurtal(i), kurtalli- (n.) the meaning 'crate, hamper, basket.' Indeed the meaning of this Hittite word, many times preceded by either the determinative GIS or GI, was already suggested by E. Laroche in his review of J. Friedrich's Hethitisches Worterbuch (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1953). Laroche wrote that kurtal(i) means "recipient en bois (GIS) ou en vannerie (GI)," (1) and his translation has rightly been accepted ever since. (2) Puhvel proceeded to add a second meaning for Hittite kurtal(i), as the "name of the constellation (MUL) Pleiad(es)." This meaning, which is based on a single source, is exceptional, because otherwise the Pleiades constellation is always written [.sup.d.7.7](.BI) in Hittite texts, or with the likely Hittiticized lemma for this deified star-group, [.sup.d.Seppitta]. (3)