Hittite II

Building directly on Hittite I, this course pushes you from grammar drills into actually reading cuneiform — the back half of van den Hout's textbook plus beginner-level passages from real Hittite texts that you transliterate and translate week by week. Expect steady homework, two quizzes, a midterm, and a final, all centered on recognizing signs, parsing morphology, and learning to navigate the standard reference tools (grammars, sign-lists like Rüster-Neu, dictionaries). It's a niche but foundational course for anyone heading toward Anatolian studies or Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, where reading the primary sources yourself — not relying on translations — is what separates a specialist from a tourist.