On Recent Cuneiform Editions of Hittite Fragments (I)

摘要

Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazkoi~1 (henceforth KBo) is one of the primary and oldest publication series for the Hittite cuneiform documents from Bogazkoy, and its first six volumes were edited by pi oneer scholars H. H. Figulla, E. F. Weidner, O. Weber, E. Forrer, and F. Hrozny between the years 1916-21. They contain the copies of the most important and well preserved tablets stemming from the first excavation seasons at Bogazkoy under the direction of H. Winckler and Th. Makridi. The Second World War and its aftermath resulted in an extended hiatus of the publication of KBo. In 1954 H. Otten released volume 7 of the series, which offered the finds from the more systematically conducted excavations of K. Bittel. Since then, and for more than a half century, Otten alone and with his long-time colleague Chr. Ruster (Werner) continuously and prodigiously published a great deal of this series. With some exceptions (H. G. Guterbock, C. W. Carter, H. M. Kummel, G. Wilhelm, E. Neu), Otten was the person primarily responsible for work on the KBo editions.