Annick Payne
Bern University, Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Faculty Member
- Anatolian History, Lydian, Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Historiography, Writing systems, Lycian, and 31 moreLuwian, Hittite, Classics, Anatolian Studies, Tell Ahmar - Til Barsib excavations, Hieroglyphic Luvian / Luwian, Carian, Sidetic, Text And Image, Sociolinguistics, Ancient Near East, Anatolian Archaeology, Palaeography, Ancient Lycia, Carian/Karian language/script, Anatolian Languages, Origin of Writing, Neo-Hittite Art and Architecture, Lydian Pottery, Hieroglyphic Luwian, Hittites Traditions, Gygean Lake, Lycian Script and Language, Greek Colonisation, Hittitology, Ancient History, Ancient Near East (Archaeology), 3D modelling, laser scanner, surveying, Linguistics, Ancient Indo-European Languages, and Archaeologyedit
The Lydians, speakers of an ancient Indo-European language, dominated Western Asia Minor under the Mermnad dynasty in the 7th and 6th centuries BC. The final Mermnad king of Lydia, Croesus, is still cited today as the epitome of... more
The Lydians, speakers of an ancient Indo-European language, dominated Western Asia Minor under the Mermnad dynasty in the 7th and 6th centuries BC. The final Mermnad king of Lydia, Croesus, is still cited today as the epitome of incredible riches. Apart from the figure of Croesus, the Lydians are well known because they are famously credited with the invention of coinage, and because of the prominence of Lydian tales in Graeco-Roman literature, in particular in the writings of the Greek historian Herodotus. These, in turn, inspired many later accounts and artistic representations, including Friedrich Hebbel’s tragedy ‘Gyges und sein Ring’ and Alexander Zemlinky’s opera ‘King Candaules’.
First-hand information on the Lydians stems mainly from archaeological research, as the available corpus of native Lydian texts is limited in size and genre, while later sources may show bias and distance to events recorded. This volume combines current historical, linguistic, and archaeological research to discuss the following topics: Lydian history and archaeology; language and writing; money, religion, and burial customs; concluding with the perception of Lydia throughout history. The book offers an up-to-date introduction to the Lydians, with extensive bibliographical references for further study. It is aimed at a wide audience, including general readers and scholars. A particular focus lies on the re-interpretation of the available text sources, taking into account recent advances made in neighboring academic fields in the study of ancient Anatolian civilizations.
First-hand information on the Lydians stems mainly from archaeological research, as the available corpus of native Lydian texts is limited in size and genre, while later sources may show bias and distance to events recorded. This volume combines current historical, linguistic, and archaeological research to discuss the following topics: Lydian history and archaeology; language and writing; money, religion, and burial customs; concluding with the perception of Lydia throughout history. The book offers an up-to-date introduction to the Lydians, with extensive bibliographical references for further study. It is aimed at a wide audience, including general readers and scholars. A particular focus lies on the re-interpretation of the available text sources, taking into account recent advances made in neighboring academic fields in the study of ancient Anatolian civilizations.
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This article addresses two Anatolian Hieroglyphic (AH) signs of writing that are attested as determinatives of words belonging to the realm of bread baking. One of these signs, *291, is only attested twice, once as a determinative, and... more
This article addresses two Anatolian Hieroglyphic (AH) signs of writing that are attested as determinatives of words belonging to the realm of bread baking. One of these signs, *291, is only attested twice, once as a determinative, and once as a phonetic sign with the value /li/. As a determinative, the sign *291 still awaits elucidation.1 The second sign of writing, *402, has been long known as a semantogram, SCUTELLA, in- terpreted as a tray or platter, with a phonetic value /sa/, understood to derive acrophoni- cally from the depiction of a seal. It will be argued in the following that the traditional interpretation of this sign’s semantographic value is incompatible with its phonetic value, and a re-interpretation will be offered which integrates both sign values. To provide added background to the proposed new reading, a cultural practice related to bread baking will be discussed.
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The present article seeks to provide an overview of aims, problems, and possible lines of inquiry as suggested by the thorough investigation of one of the Anatolian hieroglyphic signs *439 (wa/i), one of the most frequent signs, and one... more
The present article seeks to provide an overview of aims, problems, and possible lines of inquiry as suggested by the thorough investigation of one of the Anatolian hieroglyphic signs *439 (wa/i), one of the most frequent signs, and one characterized by paleographic variants. The paper defines the chronological and geographic distribution of the variants, thus offering it as a new criterion for the dating and provenience of Anatolian hieroglyphic texts. It also offers an interpretation to the development of this sign in the context of the general development of the writing system from the twelfth to the end of the eighth centuries BCE.
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The paper considers differences, similarities and reciprocal influences between Anatolian hieroglyphic handwriting on lead and cursive writing of the same script on stone. The discussion of the relationship between sign forms recorded on... more
The paper considers differences, similarities and reciprocal influences between Anatolian hieroglyphic handwriting on lead and cursive writing of the same script on stone. The discussion of the relationship between sign forms recorded on the two different writing supports is based on a palaeographic study of seven high frequency signs within a reference group of five lead documents and 18 roughly contemporary (8th century BC) incised stone inscriptions, all from the region of Tabal.
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in: Šárka Velhartická (ed.), Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová, Culture & History of the Ancient Near East Volume 79, Leiden – Boston: BRILL, 2016
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Exakt einhundert Jahre nach der editio princeps der griechisch-lydischen Bilingue (LW 40) aus Pergamon ist es nun erstmals gelungen, diese kurze, aber teilweise stark verwitterte Inschrift vollständig zu lesen. Sie verrät uns den... more
Exakt einhundert Jahre nach der editio princeps der griechisch-lydischen Bilingue (LW 40) aus Pergamon ist es nun erstmals gelungen, diese kurze, aber teilweise stark verwitterte Inschrift vollständig zu lesen. Sie verrät uns den lydischen Namen der Athene, der in der Vergangenheit versuchsweise als Atana (Littmann 1916: 39), Ataśil (Bilabel 1921: 154–155), Aθνil (Neumann 1967a: 86), Ac[.]il (Gusmani 1980: 29) bzw. Acxịl (id. 1986a: 149) gelesen wurde; er wurde jedoch im falschen Wort der Inschrift gesucht und lautet vielmehr Malis.
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in: W. Keil, C. Theis, S. Kiyanrad, L. Willers (eds.), Proceedings of Presence and InVisibility - sign-bearing artefacts in sacral spaces. International research conference, Heidelberg, February 23rd-25th 2015, in press
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in: Proceedings of ‘Sign and Symbol in Egypt and Mesoamerica. Exploring the Interrelationships of Writing and Iconography’, 30/06–02/07/2016, Univ. Warsaw, Visible Language, in press
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in: News from the Lands of the Hittites 1, 2018
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in: in J.C. Johnson, E. Cancik-Kirschbaum, J. Klinger (eds.), Proceedings of ‘Die Sprache des Bewusstseins und das Bewusstsein von Sprache im Alten Orient’, Berlin 17/11/2014, in press
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in: : Š. Velharticka (ed.), Bedřich Hrozný and 100 Years of Hittitology, Prague, 2016, 208–212.
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in: Hawary A., Morenz L. D. (eds.), Schrift(sprachen) der Alten und Neuen Welt. [Thot. Beiträge zur historischen Epistemologie und Medienarchäologie; Band 2 El], Berlin (in press.).
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in: P. Cotticelli-Kurras – A. Rizza (Hrsg.), Variation within and among writing systems. Concepts and Methods in the Analysis of Ancient Written Documents, Wiesbaden 2017, 245–250.
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Ancient Anatolia held a unique role as a bridge between Ancient Near Eastern and Classical tradition, and because of this is singularly suited to interdisciplinary approaches. Accounts of her cultures, languages, history and archaeology... more
Ancient Anatolia held a unique role as a bridge between Ancient Near Eastern and Classical tradition, and because of this is singularly suited to interdisciplinary approaches. Accounts of her cultures, languages, history and archaeology in the 1st millennium B.C. remain, however, separated by disciplinary boundaries. Further, many areas under consideration do not even belong to currently established fields of research. Differing methodologies in the academic fields involved, and a focus on minutiae obstruct the integration of research results into a coherent picture. This situation is mirrored by the available literature: outside of focus areas such as specific archaeological sites, publications are widely scattered and often seriously out of date.
Research Interests: Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Classics, Anatolian Studies, and 26 moreHittitology, Hellenistic History, Anatolian Archaeology, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Anatolian History, Numismatics, Anatolian Languages, Lycian, Lydian, Carian, Linguistics, Classical philology, Ancient Near East, Cilicia, Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, Achaemenid History, Phrygian, Iron Age, Pisidia, Ancient Caria, Ancient Lycia, Achaemenian Empire, Phrygia, Achaemenid Art and Archaeology, Asia Minor, and Lydia
While notions of “systematicity”, “system pressure”, “paradigm systematics” etc. have been very productively explored in the study of language, cognition and other complex semiotic domains, the question of what constitutes a system of... more
While notions of “systematicity”, “system pressure”, “paradigm systematics” etc. have been very productively explored in the study of language, cognition and other complex semiotic domains, the question of what constitutes a system of writing as a system and how such systems influence writing development, has hardly been explored so far, especially with regard to complex writing systems. It is unclear, for instance, whether graphic systems for the representation of language(s) can be better analysed under a rule-based or a constraint-based approach; whether the diachronic development of the system is governed by “invisible-hand” processes of self-organisation, only perceivable in hindsight; or if its stabilisation is typically driven by external (“top-down”) norms governing orthographies more or less strongly than by internal (“autopoeitic”) processes and pressures. What is the role of usage-based (“performance-based”) effects on writing systems, such as frequency, saliency or graphic distinctiveness vis-à-vis other signs, during both the initial creation and subsequent maintenance of signs constituting a writing system? Is the maintenance of complex writing across time facilitated via loops of perception and production through “naturally” occurring oppositions within writing systems – such as parsability into (primarily) semantic and phonetic components, confrontation of different ranges of stroke density within a graph, secondary harnessing of (pseudo-)iconic vs. non-iconic elements, or contingent upon influences from different writing materials and supports?
It is questions of this kind which the workshop intends to address, although – in the good tradition of the previous “Idea of Writing” meetings since 2004 – other topics related to complex or under-researched writing systems do feature in the programme.
It is questions of this kind which the workshop intends to address, although – in the good tradition of the previous “Idea of Writing” meetings since 2004 – other topics related to complex or under-researched writing systems do feature in the programme.
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“Writing as a System: Emergence, Variation, Performance”
NCCR eikones, University of Basel, 22–23 July, 2016
NCCR eikones, University of Basel, 22–23 July, 2016
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Complex writing systems – such as the Egyptian, the Cuneiform, the Anatolian Hieroglyphic, the Chinese or the Mesoamerican ones – display a characteristic iconic quality. To various degrees, their signs adopt forms with recognizable... more
Complex writing systems – such as the Egyptian, the Cuneiform, the Anatolian Hieroglyphic, the Chinese or the Mesoamerican ones – display a characteristic iconic quality. To various degrees, their signs adopt forms with recognizable visual referents. Crucially, the values of these signs can be motivated in various ways by their visual referents. In a number of different manners, scribes could also deliberately enhance or obscure the iconic potential of signs. The field for this kind of playfulness or iconic manipulation is broad, yet it is constrained by certain rules. The same goes for the general level of iconicity in any complex writing system. The course aims at developing methodological approaches toward identifying the different facets of iconicity as a central phenomenon of complex writing systems. Iconicity is conceived here as an inherently pragmatic and dynamic category. It reveals its potential as a methodological framework at the interfaces between a) the text artefact in which the signs exist, b) the broader semiotics of the (visual) culture to which a writing system is more or less closely related, and c) the cognitive issues associated with sign recognition and reading.
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in: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 74/1, 2015, 151-153.
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Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (in press).
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in: OLZ 2016, 111(4-5), 330-331
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in: OLZ 108.3, 2013, 162–164
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in: BSOAS, forthcoming