Hatice Gonnet-Bağana Hittite Collection

Lion hunting scene on orthostat, Arslantepe Malatya

Finding Aid and Box Contents

Finding Aid for Hatice Gonnet-Bağana, Hittite Collection Records, 1900-2016

1900-2016

Descriptive Summary

Creator

Hatice Gonnet-Bağana, 1932-

Title

Collections of Anatolian Civilizations,

Hatice Gonnet-Bağana, Hittite Collection

Collection Number

GNT.01

GNT.D01

GNT.L01

GNT.S01

Abstract

This collection under the Collection of Anatolian Civilizations was donated to Koç University by the archaeologist/hittitologist Hatice Gonnet-Bağana in 2014 along with Jacques Lefort, Byzantine Collection. The collection offers a wide range of sources on the subject of ritualistic traditions, cultural, social, and mythological aspects, as well as linguistic development of civilizations spreading throughout Anatolia. Diversity of languages in both print and manuscript materials including French, Turkish, English, German, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese, and Arabic gives a rich perspective in the field of archaeology.

The collection consists of the source materials including images (photographs, negative films, and slides), manuscripts, maps, lecture notes, hieroglyph inscription illustrations and drawings, personal correspondences and official letters, excavation reports, ephemera, posters, newspaper clippings, postcards, as well as published works (reprints, offprints, articles, and monographs). The collection can be divided into four main categories: 1) image collection (photographs, slides, and negatives); 2) source material collection and drawings; 3) Emmanuel Laroche Hittite texts collection (Hatice Gonnet-Bağana’s transliteration and translation of Hittite texts based on Emmanuel Laroche’s catalog); and 4) academic publications (articles and offprints).

Administrative Information

Access Restriction

This collection is open for research.

Copyright notice

The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to Turkish law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. Koç University provides access to the digital materials on the website for educational and research purposes only. Any other use of these materials without written permission, including but not limited to commercial or scholarly reproductions, redistributions, publication, or transmission, is strictly prohibited.

The unique materials have been digitized and placed online with the exception of published works that are not currently in the public domain, having copyright restrictions. Some materials are available only within the confines of Koç University campus, and some are not currently available online at all. These materials may be made publicly available online at the expiration of their copyright terms, subject to international and domestic copyright laws. Information about the works in question is available for all items, even those to which online access is restricted.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Hatice Gonnet-Bağana Hittite Collection, GNT 01, Suna Kıraç Library Archive, Koç University.

Acquisitions Information

The collection was donated to Koç University by Mrs. Hatice Gonnet-Bağana, hittitologist in 2014.

Processing Information

Processed by University Archive Staff

Biographical Note

Hatice Gonnet-Bağana was born in Istanbul, Seyfullah Pasha Mansion at Çengelköy (1932). She moved to Paris with her family when her father Mehmet Ali Bağana was appointed at the OCDE in 1952. She was married to the French painter-engineer Antoine Gonnet in 1963 (as she acquired his surname, Gonnet). She studied archaeology with Prof. Emmanuel Laroche and received her diploma at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (1967) and later at the Ecole du Louvre (1969) as a pupil of the archeaologist André Parrot. She was admitted to the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique) in 1969 and completed her doctoral dissertation in 1979. She directed Phyrigia excavation research in Beyköy, Afyon from 1979 to 1982. She attended and presented at the international conferences, symposia and colloques between the years 1975 and 2003. She became the head of hittitology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes V. Section from 1982 to 1995 as the sole advisee for master’s theses and doctoral dissertations in hittitology when Emmanuel Laroche was retired. In 1997 she was retired with the award of honorary researcher at the CNRS and became member of the Berlin Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft. She carried out her scholarly activities as lecturer at the Ecole du Louvre in hittitology, philology of cuneiforms and hieroglyphic inscriptions, and historical analysis of ancient texts from 1995 to 2011.