Hittite texts

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.

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)

elected texts

Hittite texts with dedicated Wikipedia articles

Old Kingdom

*Anitta text
*Hittite military oath
*Hittite laws
*Myth of Illuyanka

New Kingdom

*Kikkuli's horse training instructions
*Manapa-Tarhunda letter
*Milawata letter
*Tawagalawa letter
*Song of Kumarbi

External links

* [http://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/hetkonk/ Hittite text concordance database]
* [http://www.asor.org/HITTITE/CTHHP.html CTH index]
* [http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexe.htm?/texte/texte2.htm#heth TITUS database]
* [http://www.hittites.info/translations.aspx Selection of Hittite Texts in Translation]


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