Akkadian and Hittite Emotion in Context (AHEC)– Towards a Lexicon of Emotions in Cuneiform Texts from ancient Mesopotamia and Asia Minor

• Applicants: Professorin Dr. Doris Prechel; Dr. Ulrike Steinert
• Subject Area: Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 495257771

The research project pursues a comprehensive study of the semantic domain of emotions in both Akkadian and Hittite. It will systematically explore how emotions have been linguistically and contextually differentiated and delimited in the two languages; the research will include the semantic properties, similarities and relations between different emotion terms, their uses and developments in different text genres, periods and contexts. With its thematic focus and its comparative, corpus-linguistic approach, the proposed project will open up new possibilities for collaboration with other philological and historical disciplines, further expand the scope of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and highlight its relevance by making an important contribution to a recent and extremely vibrant field of research.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Israel
• International Co-Applicant: Professor Dr. Amir Gilan