Hittite inscriptions

The corpus of texts written in the Hittite language consists of more than 30,000 tablets or fragments that have been excavated from the royal archives of the capital of the Hittite Kingdom Hattusa, close to the modern Turkish town of Boğazkale or Boğazköy.

While Hattusa has yielded the majority of tablets, other sites where they have been found include: Maşat Höyük, Ortaköy, Kuşaklı or Kayalıpınar in Turkey, Alalakh, Ougarit and Emar in Syria, Amarna in Egypt.

The tablets are mostly conserved in the Turkish museums of Ankara, Istanbul, Boğazkale and Çorum (Ortaköy) as well as in international museums such as the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin, the British Museum in London and the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

[1] The corpus is indexed by the Catalogue des Textes Hittites (CTH, since 1971).

Major sources for studies of selected texts themselves are the books of the StBoT series and the online Textzeugnisse der Hethiter.