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The corpus of texts written in theHittite language consists of more than 30,000 tablets or fragments that have been excavated from the royal archives of the capital of theHittite Kingdom,Hattusa, close to the modern Turkish town ofBoğazkale or Boğazköy. While Hattusa has yielded the majority of tablets, other sites where they have been found include:Maşat Höyük, Ortaköy, Kuşaklı or Kayalıpınar inTurkey,Alalakh,Ugarit andEmar inSyria,Amarna inEgypt.
The tablets are mostly conserved in the Turkish museums ofAnkara,Istanbul, Boğazkale and Çorum (Ortaköy) as well as in international museums such as thePergamonmuseum in Berlin, theBritish Museum in London and theMusée du Louvre in Paris.[1]
The corpus is indexed by theCatalogue des Textes Hittites (CTH, since 1971).[2] The catalogue is only a classification of texts; it does not give the texts. One traditionally cites texts by their numbers in CTH. Major sources for studies of selected texts themselves are the books of theStBoT series and the onlineTextzeugnisse der Hethiter.[3]
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The texts are classified as follows:
Some Wikipedia articles dedicated to specific Hittite texts follow. More are to be found as sections of other articles.
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{{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.