First of all, Hittite scribes did not have a "Unicode Standard"; it's entirely reasonable that different scribes or different generations used slightly different forms of a sign.

What is "Old Borger"? The numbers you use are Labat's, and they go back to Deimel.

Neither Borger nor Labat is a manual of Hittite cuneiform; what they show you of Akkadian cuneiform isn't particularly relevant to Hittite, but Labat shows an h value for 397 only in Nuzi. Nuzi Akkadian is Hurrian-influenced.

For Hittite paleography, use a manual of Hittite cuneiform!
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...



----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Wordingham <richard@...>
To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2007 5:36:56 PM
Subject: Cuneiform Hittite -ah-

What character is transliterated from cuneiform Hittite as -ah- (with
a breve below the 'h')?

From the spellings given in p68 of 'The World's Writing Systems' for
the 'fire' word (pa-ah-hur etc.), it is U+12134 CUNEIFORM SIGN HI
TIMES NUN (Old Borger 398), but from the charts in Held 1988 it looks
more like U+1202A CUNEIFORM SIGN ALEPH (Old Borger 397), the match
being with the neo-Babylonian form given in Labat's charts. There is
a Hittite font that encodes the Hittite character as U+1202A.

Richard.




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