Posted on 06/25/2008 6:23:45 PM PDT by blam
GGG Ping.
They were the forebears of the Russians.
Did the Hurrians have waiters?
So why are the Hurrians always named alphabetically.
Several thoughts here:
1. Clearly, this merits a lot more research. There must be no delay in digging up every square inch of Syria, and I think we should extend that to the Bekaa Valley. Upside down and inside out. Important for the advancement of knowledge, don’t you know.
2. Since these people are extinct, we can tell ethnic jokes about them. Did you hear the one about the two Hurrian guys in the elevator?
3. I’m not sure I’d tell people I was an Assyriologist.
People who walked around very fast?
I thought they were some Indians from around the Great Lakes somewhere.
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In inscriptions of the Assyrian King Shalmaneser I (1280-1261 B.C.) we find the first occurrence of the term Uruatri... eight countries, collectively referred to as Uruatri, situated in a mountainous region to the southeast of Lake Van... the Assyrian name of Uruatri had no ethnic significance... (perhaps meaning 'the mountainous country')... In Assyrian inscriptions of the 11th century B.C., we again find the term Uruatri, and from the second quarter of the 9th century, in the reign of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), it is of common occurrence, in the form Urartu, being used concurrently with the name of Nairi... (Boris B. Piotrovsky, Urartu pp 43-45)the web archive version:
The author of the following is another "Aryan" flake.In Search of Hurrian UrkeshWe know that Urkesh was... a real city as well. In 1948, two bronze lions appeared on the antiquities market; the lions are inscribed with a text in which a king by the name of Tish-atal boasts of having built a temple in Urkesh. But since the provenance of these lions is not known, the location of the city until recently was also unknown... Our excavations, however, have proved that Urkesh was located at the remote north Syrian site of Tell Mozan.
by Giorgio Buccellati
and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
Proto-Indoaryans, Mitanni, HurriansHurrian texts maintained in the Hittite archives, coupled with Hurrian loan words in Luwian and the Hurrians' own inscriptions and texts in north Mesopotamia which date as early as the twenty-third century BC, all speak for an additional non-Indo-European presence on the eastern borders of the Indo-Europeans of Anatolia..."(J.P. Mallory, In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth, London, Thames and Hudson, 1989).
There is a great number of Hurrian gods mentioned in Hittite texts, and many of these are descriptions of cult festivals. Since most texts are fragmentary and, therefore, cannot be dated exactly, we only pick a few significant examples. The texts for the his'uwa festival have just been mentioned. Most revealing is a prayer of king Muwatalli. Already in the invocation of the main gods at the beginning of the text, Hebat occurs. The king then asks the bull S'eris' to intercede for him, and calls him 'Bull of the Weathergod of Hatti', which means that this Hurrian bull had entered the circle of the gods of the capital." (Guterbock, H.G., The Hurrian Element in the Hittite Empire, in: Hoffner, Jr., Harry A. (ed.), Perspectives on Hittite CIvilization: selected writings of Hans Gustav Guterbock, Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1997)
Archaeologists say the Urartians failed to overcome harsh winter conditions
Turkish Daily News | Friday, March 3, 2006 | Dogan Daily News
Posted on 03/03/2006 8:19:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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Lycian Influence To The Indian Cave Temples
The Guide to the Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent | spring of 2000 | Takeo Kamiya
Posted on 07/11/2005 10:37:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Capital City Of Ancient Superpower Discovered (Medes)
Independent (UK) | 10-26-2002 | David Keys
Posted on 10/26/2002 12:56:48 PM PDT by blam
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These guys are credited with being the first people to bring domesticated horses to Mesopotamia.
The Iranians have recently found/redated ruins to this earlier period ~
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Don't know.
But for all their hurrian, they still aren't here.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrians#Language
The Hurrians spoke an ergative-agglutinative language, conventionally called Hurrian, unrelated to neighboring Semitic or Indo-European languages, but clearly related to Urartian — a language spoken about a millennium later in northeastern Anatolia — and possibly, very distantly, to the present-day Northeast Caucasian languages. Some scholars relate the Hurrian language also to Georgian and its associated South Caucasian or Kartvelian languages.[3] Similarities to Hurrian words have also been suggested in neighboring languages such as Armenian.[4][5] It is believed by some scholars that the Hurrians arrived in the Caucasus around 2700 BC.[6]
The Hurrians adopted the Akkadian cuneiform script for their own language about 2000 BC. This has enabled scholars to read the Hurrian language. Because the number of Hurrian texts discovered is small, and because many Sumerian logograms are used, masking the phonetic shapes of the Hurrian words they represent, understanding of the Hurrian language is far from complete and many words are missing from their vocabulary.
Texts in the Hurrian language have been found at Hattusa, Ugarit (Ras Shamra), as well as one of the longest of the Amarna letters, written by King Tushratta of Mitanni to Pharaoh Amenhotep III. It was the only long Hurrian text known until a multi-tablet collection of literature in Hurrian with a Hittite translation was discovered at Hattusas in 1983.
According to medieval Islamic sources, the language spoken by Hurrian tribes that primarily belonged to the Yazdanism sect of religious belief spoke a Proto-Pehlewani language.[7] The Hurrian influence on the modern Kurdish language is still evident in its ergativic grammatical structure and in its toponyms.[8]
People who walked around very fast?
Yes, they were always rushed, and their favorite symbol was a red bull.
This tends to overshadow Hurrian grammar, particularly since the largest body of Hurrian literature was actually translated into a different language.
This all took place before most Indo-European languages had solidified into their current forms.
We were just discussing the Druze last week. Early Druze made their living as "scribes". They failed to preserve even the slightest element of their original language, particularly as they acquired all the good lookin' chicks from all the major tribes and nations in the Middle East!
Being a scribe was a doggone good job!
When I was Hurrian to get home, Iran :-)
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