Hittite inscriptions
The corpus of texts written in the
StBoT series and the online Textzeugnisse der Hethiter.[2]
CTH numbering scheme
The texts are classified 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
Some Wikipedia articles dedicated to specific Hittite texts follow. More are to be found as sections of other articles.
Old Kingdom
- Anitta text
- Hittite military oath
- Hittite laws (CTH 291–292), also called the Code of the Nesilim
- Myth of Illuyanka
New Kingdom
- Kikkuli's horse training instructions
- Indictment of Madduwatta
- Manapa-Tarhunta letter
- Milawata letter
- Song of Kumarbi
- Story of Appu
- Tawagalawa letter
- Zita (Hittite prince)
See also
Notes
- ^ Laroche, Emmanuel (1971). Catalogue des textes hittites. Études et commentaires, 75 (in French). Paris.
{{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) The first edition came out in 1956. A supplement was published in 1972: Laroche, Emmanuel (1972). "Catalogue des Textes Hittites, premier supplément". Revue hittite et asianique. XXX: 94–133. - ^ "Textzeugnisse der Hethiter (Hethitologie Portal Mainz)" (in German, French, Italian, and English). Gerfrid G.W. Müller & Gernot Wilhelm. 2002–2013.
References
- Gary M. Beckman, Harry A. Hoffner, Hittite diplomatic texts, volume 7 of Writings from the ancient world, Scholars Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7885-0551-5.
External links
- Košak, Silvin (2002–2012). "Konkordanz der hethitisches Keilschrifttafeln (Hittite text concordance database)" (in German). Gertrid G.W. Müller.
- Martínez García, Javier; Gippert, Jost; Korn, Agnes (2010). "Index". Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS). Membership required for some databases. Other databases under construction.
- "Textzeugnisse der Hethiter (Hethitologie Portal Mainz)". This database currently contains transliterations and translations of Hittite state treaties, decrees, myths, and rituals.