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Oguz Soysal
5473 South Ingleside Ave.
Apt. # 2-E
Chicago, IL 60615
773-324-2698

osoysal@ameritech.net

Ancient History and Languages /
Ancient Anatolian Languages and Cultures

Ancient History and Languages (espc.Mesopotamian and Anatolian: Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Hattian etc.)

Professional Associations/Papers/Memberships

Publications:
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Books:
1) Mursili I. -Eine historische Studie.
Dissertation, University of Würzburg, 1989
(published in 1994, Germany)

2) Hattischer Wortschatz in hethitischer Textüberlieferung.
Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abt. 1, Bd. 74 (2004, Netherlands)

Articles:
1) KUB XXXI 4+ (Die Puhanu-Chronik). Zum Thronstreit Hattusilis I.
Hethitica 7 (1987, Belgium)
pp. 173-253.


2) Einige Überlegungen zu KBo III 60.
Vicino Oriente 7 (1988, Italy)
pp. 107-128.

3) “Der Apfel möge die Zähne nehmen!”
Orientalia, Nova Series 58 (1989, Italy)
pp. 171-192.

4) Review of: M. Hutter, Behexung, Entsühnung ...
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 140 (1990, Germany)
pp. 152-154.

5) Noch einmal zur Sukziya-Episode im Erlaß Telipinus.
Orientalia, Nova Series 59 (= Gedenkschrift von Schuler) (1990, Italy)
pp. 271-279.

6) Review of: A. Kammenhuber, Mat.heth.Thes., Lfg.11.
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 141 (1991, Germany)
pp. 175-176.

7) A necrology for Prof. Dr. Einar von Schuler.
Belleten 57 (1993, Turkey)
pp. 641-642 (in Turkish).

8) “III. Hattusili Büyük Metni”. Bir Hitit Belgesini Tanımlama Denemesi.
Archivum Anatolicum 1 (1995, Turkey)
pp. 137-150 (in Turkish with an English summary).

9) KBo XVIII 151 Hakkında Bazı Düsünceler.
Archivum Anatolicum 3 (= Gedenkschrift Bilgiç) (1997-98, Turkey)
pp. 301-339 (in Turkish).

10) Beiträge zur althethitischen Geschichte (II).
Zur Textwiederherstellung und Datierung von KUB XXXI 64+ (CTH 12).
Altorientalische Forschungen 25 (= Festschrift Klengel) (1998, Germany)
pp. 5-33.

11) A Forgotten Hittite Fragment of the KI.LAM Festival.
Journal of the Cuneiform Studies 50 (1998, USA)
pp. 59-65.

12) Beiträge zur althethitischen Geschichte (I).
Ergänzende Bemerkungen zur Puhanu-Chronik und zum Menschenfresser-Text.
Hethitica 14 (1999, Belgium)
pp. 109-145.

13) Review of: J. Klinger, StBoT 37.
Kratylos 44 (1999, Germany)
pp. 161-167.

14) Bazı Kayıp, Gözden Kaçmıc ve Yanlıs Saptanmıs Hattice Fragmanlar.
Archivum Anatolicum 4 (2000, Turkey)
pp. 177-205 (in Turkish).

15) Analysis of a Hittite Oracular Document.
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 90 (2000, Germany)
pp. 85-122.

16) Review of: V. Soucek - J. Siegelová, Systematische Bibliographie der Hethitologie
1915-1995.
Journal of the American Oriental Society 121 (2001, USA)
pp. 296-298.

17) New materials for the Hattian text corpus.
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2001 nr. 3 (2001, France)
pp. 67-68.

18) Ist das hattische Wort für “Kuh” gefunden ?
Altorientalische Forschungen 28 (2001, Germany)
pp. 282-288.

19) Nochmals zu Hethitisch NA4tahapsetai- / tahupastai- usw.
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2001 nr. 4 (2001, France)
pp. 87-89.

20) Hattice Arastırmalarında Son Durum.
(Zum gegenwärtigen Stand der hattischen Studien).
Akten des IV. Internationalen Kongresses für Hethitologie. Würzburg, 4. - 8. Oktober
1999.
Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten 45 (2001, Germany)
pp. 642-651 (in Turkish).

21-23) Hattusilis I, Labarnas I, Telipinus.
Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. Salem Press (2002, USA)
Vol. 2, pp. 605, 716; Vol. 3, pp. 1062-1063.

24) Eine hattische “Notzeit” Beschreibung.
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2002 nr. 1 (2002, France)
pp. 8-9.

25) Zum Nomen (:)suwaru-.
Novalis Indogermanica. Festschrift für Günter Neumann zum 80. Geburtstag (2002,
Austria)
pp. 465-474.

26) Zur Herkunft eines gemeinsamen Wortes in Altanatolien: parninka/i-.
Silva Anatolica. Anatolian Studies Presented to Maciej Popko on the Occasion of His
65th Birthday (2002, Poland)
pp. 315-337.

27) Einige vermißte, übersehene oder verkannte hattische Fragmente.
Anatolia Antica. Studi in memoria di Fiorella Imparati. Tomo II (2002, Italy)
pp. 753-781.

28) Ortak Bir Eski Anadolu Kelimesi parninka/i-’nin Kökeni Hakkında.
Archivum Anatolicum 5 (2002, Turkey)
pp. 171-191 (in Turkish).

29) Corrections to readings of Konya-Seal inscription (1997.12.1).
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2002 nr. 3 (2002, France)
p. 67.

30) Yayınlanmamıs Bogazköy AnAr Fragmanlarından Degisik içerikli Metinler.

(With Rukiye Akdogan)
Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi 2002 Yıllıgı (2003, Turkey)
pp. 172-195 (in Turkish).

31) Kantuzzili in Siegelinschriften.
Bibliotheca Orientalis 60 (2003, Netherlands)
cols. 41-56.

32) Zu einer Lesung und Bedeutung.
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2003 nr. 1 (2003, France)
pp. 17-18.

33) A Practical Vocabulary from Ortaköy.
(With Aygül Süel)
Hittite Studies in Honor of Harry A. Hoffner Jr. on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
(2003, USA)
pp. 349-365.

34) Did a Hittite acrobat perform a bull-leaping ?
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2003 nr. 4 (2003, France)
pp. 105-107.

35) A new fragment to Hittite Gilgames Epic.
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2004 nr. 1 (2004, France)
pp. 9-10.

36) Notizen zu altanatolischen Beiträgen in N.A.B.U. 2003 No 4.
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2004 nr. 1 (2004, France)
pp. 18-20.

37) Beiträge von Emil O. Forrer zu hattischen Studien: Eine Bilanz seiner
wissenschaftlichen Verdienste.
Sarnikzel. Hethitologische Studien zum Gedenken an Emil Orgetorix Forrer
(19.02.1894 - 10.01.1986) (2004, Germany)
pp. 609-626.

38) Review of: Kulturgeschichten. Altorientalische Studien für Volkert Haas zum 65.
Geburtstag.
Journal of the American Oriental Society 123 (2003, USA)
pp. 664-666.

39) On Hittite “bull-leaping” again: with a lexical examination of the verb watku- “to
jump” / Corrections to my notes in N.A.B.U. 2003 No 4 and in N.A.B.U. 2004 No 1.
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2004 nr. 3 (2004, France)
pp. 64-65.

40) Review of: H.-S. Schuster, Hattisch-Hethitischen Bilinguen II. Textbearbeitungen 2, 3.
Bibliotheca Orientalis 61 (2004, Netherlands)
cols. 355-378.

41) The Angry Priests in a Hattian-Hittite Narrative.
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 4 (2004, Netherlands)
pp. 75-98.

42) On Hittite (LÚ)ant- “(the) equal (one) > rival” again.
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 4 (2004, Netherlands)
pp. 99-105.

43) On the origin of the royal title tabarna / labarna.
Anatolica 31 (2005, Netherlands)
pp. 189-209.


Reports:
1) Epigraphical Studies from Hittite Sapinuwa.
ARIT Newsletter 27 (Spring 1999)
p. 7.

2) On the origin of the royal title tabarna / labarna.
Newsletter of the Department of Archaeology & History of Art of the Bilkent
University, Nr. 4 (2005, Turkey)
p. 31.

Presentations:
1) Hattice Arastırmalarında Son Durum.
IVth International Congress of Hittitology. Würzburg, Germany, Oct. 4-8, 1999
(presented in Turkish).

2) On the origin of the royal title tabarna / labarna.
Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors in Ancient Anatolia. An International
Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction. Emory University. September 17-19, 2004

Interviews:
1) Söylesi (an interview on the Hattians and the book “Hattischer Wortschatz in
hethitischer Textüberlieferung”).
In Turkish newspaper “Dünya”, April, 17th-18th 2004 issue, weekend section p. 18.

2) Röportaj (an interview on the Hattians and the book “Hattischer Wortschatz in
hethitischer Textüberlieferung”).
In Turkish newspaper “Hürriyet”, November, 7th 2004 issue, Sunday section pp. 8-9.

Works in press:
1) Review of: Y. Cohen, Taboos and Prohibitions in Hittite Society. THeth 24.
(For “Journal of the Near Eastern Studies”, USA)

2) Hans Gustav Güterbock ve Cevat Dursunoglu’nu anarken.
(For “Hans Gustav Güterbock Anı Kitabı”, Turkey)

3) Review of: J. Hazenbos, The Organization of the Anatolian Local Cults During the
Thirteenth Century B. C.: An Appraisal of the Hittite Cult Inventories.
(For “Journal of the Near Eastern Studies”, USA)

4) Beiträge zur althethitischen Geschichte (III). Kleine Bruchstücke historischen Inhalts.
(For “Zeitschrift für Assyriologie”, Germany)

Works in progress:
1) Some rare personal names in Anatolian written sources from 2. Millennium B. C.

2) The Hattian-Hittite Foundation Rituals from Ortaköy (I-III). (With Aygül Süel)

3) Ortaköy’de Bulunmus Hattice-Hititçe Insa Ritüelleri (I-III). (With Aygül Süel)

4) Unpublizierte AnAr-Texte im Ankara Museum. (With Rukiye Akdogan)

5) KBo III 34-36. Der althethitische Exempla-Erlaß. (Book)

6) Puhanum (for Reallexikon der Assyriologie)

7) Zu hethitischen Wörtern für "Zinn".



Teaching experiences:
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New York University (Spring, 1995): Hittite Language and Culture
University of Chicago (Spring 2001): Hattian-Hittite Bilinguals
Bilkent University (Spring, 2005): Hittitology

Archaeological Experiences:
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1) Participation at the Konya Karahöyük Excavations 1979 (Turkey)
2) Participation at the Sivas Kusakli Excavations 1997 (Turkey)
3) Visiting the Çorum Ortaköy Excavations 1997 (Turkey)
4) Archaeological surveys at the Vicinity of Sivas 2000 (Turkey)

Memberships in scholarly societies:
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1) Oriental Club of the City of New York (since 1993)
2) Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (since 1997)
3) American Oriental Society (since 1999)

Projects:
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Ortaköy-Sapinuwa Epigraphical Research / OSER (since 1999)

Description of the Project:
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The Hittites, an Ancient Indo-European people, built up an empire in Anatolia (now a part of the Republic of Turkey) which was very powerful from about 1600-1200 B.C. Their capital was Hattusa (modern Bogazköy). We have a large number of original documents from the Hittites who used cuneiform script written on clay tablets. They are mostly discovered in the royal archives in Hattusa, and the scholars were depent on this only source of Hittite documents for many years. But the discovery of other important Hittite city Sapinuwa (modern Ortaköy) in 1990 brought a new source for Hittite studies.
In the excavations at Ortaköy (situated 55 km. northwest of Çorum, in Northern Central Anatolia), in the years 1990 to 2000, more than 3500 clay tablets written in cuneiform were unearthed beside significant archaeological finds. The epigraphic finds constitute the second largest number of Hittite tablets discovered in Anatolia next to the archives in the Hittite capital Bogazköy-Hattusa. The excavators of Ortaköy believe that this city was a second capital of the Hittites, or a royal residence, for a specific period, namely during the Middle Hittite Kingdom, ca. late 15th century B.C. Although the tablets are written mostly in Hittite, there are also documents in other Ancient Near Eastern Languages, primarily Sumerian, Akkadian, Hurrian and Hattian. The genres of the texts are various: vocabularies (in Sumerian-Akkadian-Hittite), bilinguals (in Hurrian-Hittite and Hattian-Hittite), letters, lists of persons, tablet-catalogs, oracular texts, prayers, rituals and festival descriptions. Most of the epigraphic finds are dated to the last phase of the Hittite Middle Kingdom (ca. 1400-1380 B.C.). This period is very poorly documented in the sources of Bogazköy. Therefore, it is expected that the texts from Ortaköy will fill a big gap in our present knowledge of Middle Hittite history, language, and writing tradition. They are significant not only for Hittite history, culture and language, but they will also contribute to a much better understanding of other Ancient Near Eastern Languages (Sumerian, Akkadian, Hurrian, Hattian). The bilingual and vocabulary texts are especially important in enlarging our knowledge of these languages.
The work on the Ortaköy epigraphic finds was begun in 1990 by a Turkish team led by Prof. Aygül Süel, excavator of Ortaköy and member of Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Cografya Fakültesi. I joined this team in January 1998, and since then I have been contributing to the studies on the multi-lingual documents (in Hattian, Akkadian, Sumerian etc.) within my personal project “Ortaköy-Sapinuwa Epigraphical Research (OSER).” This project has been financially supported by American Research Institute in Turkey in 1999 and 2000 with research fellowships.
Our Ankara-Chicago cooperation is expected to be very fruitful for Hittite lexical studies. Indeed, the results that we have achieved to date are encouraging. The activities of the season 1999 are briefly reported as “Epigraphical Studies from Hittite Sapinuwa” in ARIT Newsletter 27 (Spring 1999) p. 7, and read as papers at the 4th International Congress of Hittitology in Würzburg (Germany) in October 1999 with Turkish title “Hattice Arastirmalarinda Son Durum.” The first results of the epigraphic studies will be released by Oguz Soysal and Aygül Süel in a joint article “A Practical Vocabulary from Ortaköy,” which is currently in press for an American Festschrift. As part of the work for 2000, we are now preparing other three joint articles for publication, in which we will continue to make the Ortaköy tablets accessible to the community of scholars in the humanities. The tentative English - Turkish titles are: “The Hattian-Hittite Foundation Rituals from Ortaköy / Ortaköy’de Bulunmus Hattice-Hititçe insa Ritüelleri (I-III).”

Grants:
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1) Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Doctoral Program Fellowship (1985-1989, Germany)
2) American Research Institute in Turkey Research Fellowships for OSER (1999 and 2000, USA)

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