Written on a clay tablet (indexed KBo 71.145[2]), it is part of the Bogazköy Archive excavated at Hattusa, the Hittite capital.
[3] The tablet, written in Hittite cuneiform of the 13th century BCE,[2] is one of many in the archive recording rituals of the empire's subjects and neighbouring peoples.
[1] Its Hittite-language introduction describes its main text as in "the language of the land of Kalašma"[1] (URUka-la-aš-mi-li[2]).
The language was deciphered by Prof. Daniel Schwemer, in his work "Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi (Cuneiform Texts from Boghazköi)"[4][5] and is part of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family as confirmed by Prof. Elisabeth Rieken at Philipps-Universität Marburg.
[6][7][8] A detailed analysis of the text was published in November 2024 by Elisabeth Rieken, Ilya Yakubovich and Daniel Schwemer.