corpus

Hittite corpus

The Database of Hittite Emotional Contexts (DHEC)

• Total contexts: 1,993
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Genres

• Prayers: 504 contexts
• Historical texts: 44 contexts
• Instructions: 34 contexts
• Letters: 185 contexts
• Myths: 639 contexts
• Rituals: 587 contexts

Emotional domains in Hittite texts

• ANGER
• FEAR
• DISTRESS (including Sadness, Guilt, and Dissatisfaction)
• ENMITY (including Envy, Despair, Disgust, and Shame)
• COMFORT (including Compassion and Contentment)
• JOY
• LOVE
• MERCY

Emotional domains compared to Akkadian

The list of the emotional macrodomains supported by AHEC in the Guidelines differs from the list of Emotional domains in the Hittite texts (above), so that the domains Despair, Disgust, Sadness, Guilt, Shame, Dissatisfaction, Envy, Compassion, and Contentment in Hittite material are combined into domains of Distress, Enmity, and Comfort.

Structure of the dataset

The dataset contains:

• lemma
• wordform
• emotional domain
• publication and line information
• context and translation fields