The “Akkadian and Hittite Emotions in Context (AHEC) – Towards a Lexicon of Emotions in Cuneiform Texts from Ancient Mesopotamia and Hittite Anatolia” is a collaboration between Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and University of Tel Aviv, funded by DFG.
Project members: Prof. Doris Prechel, Prof. Ulrike Steinert, Prof. Amir Gilan, Maria Molina, Letizia Savino
Hittite Emotions for AHEC
Hittite emotional terms can be divided into 18 macrodomains, corresponding in semantics with their Akkadian counterparts.
For instruction on annotation of semantics of emotions see Guidelines.
For the diagram of emotional sphere in Hittite see Emotional Sphere.
For full inventory of emotional lexemes in Hittite see Hittite Emotions.
In the Hittite part of the project two directions of research are maintained:
The Database of Hittite Emotional Contexts (DHEC) - structured and lemmatized compound of paragraphs from Hittite texts containing emotional vocabulary
The Anatolian Emotions (AE) – etymology of the emotional lexicon in Anatolian languages (dataset)
