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Encyclopedia > Hittite texts

The corpus of texts written in the Hittite language is indexed by the Catalogue des Textes Hittites (CTH, since 1971, edited by Emmanuel Laroche). Studies of selected texts are published in the StBoT series. Hittite is the extinct language once spoken by the Hittites, a people who once created an empire centered on ancient Hattusas (modern Boğazkale) in north-central Anatolia (modern Turkey). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Emmanuel Laroche (1914–1991) was an expert of ancient Anatolian languages (Indo-European and Hurrian). ... Studien zu den Bogazkoy Texten (abbreviated StBoT) edited by the German Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur, Mainz, since 1965, is a series of editions of Hittite texts and monographs on topics of the Anatolian languages. ...


The CTH numbering is arranged as follows:

  • Historical Texts (CTH 1-220)
  • Administrative Texts (CTH 221-290)
  • Legal Texts (CTH 291-298)
  • Lexical Texts (CTH 299-309)
  • Literary Texts (CTH 310-320)
  • Mythological Texts (CTH 321-370)
  • Hymns and Prayers (CTH 371-389)
  • Ritual Texts (CTH 390-500)
  • Cult Inventory Texts (CTH 501-530)
  • Omen and Oracle Texts (CTH 531-582)
  • Vows (CTH 583-590)
  • Festival Texts (CTH 591-724)
  • Texts in Other Languages (CTH 725-830)
  • Texts of Unknown Type (CTH 831-833)

Selected texts

Hittite texts with dedicated Wikipedia articles

Anitta, son of Pithana, was a semi-legendary king of the Hittites at Kussara, a city that has yet to be identified. ... The Hittite military oath is a Hittite of two cuneiform tablets. ... Kikkuli, master horse trainer (assussanni) of the land Mitanni (LÚA-AŠ-ŠU-UŠ-ŠA-AN-NI ŠA KUR URUMI-IT-TA-AN-NI, virtually Sanskrit ) is known as the author of Middle Hittite horse training texts, dating to the Hittite New Kingdom (around 1400 BC). ... The Manapa-Tarhunta letter (CTH 191; KUB 19. ... The Milawata letter (CTH 182) is a diplomatic correspondence from a Hittite king at Hattusa to a client king in western Anatolia. ... The Tawagalawa letter (CTH 181) was written by a Hittite king to a king of Ahhiyawa around 1250 BC. This letter, of which only the third tablet has been preserved, concerns the activities of an adventurer Piyama-Radu against the Hittites. ...

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