Hittite archives

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The Hittite archives are collections of clay tablets preserving administrative, legal, religious, and diplomatic texts from the Hittite Empire, written in cuneiform and other contemporary scripts.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient text collection
archaeological find category
cuneiform tablet corpus
approximateDate 17th century BCE to 12th century BCE
chronologicalRange Late Bronze Age
Middle Hittite period
Neo-Hittite states
surface form: New Hittite Kingdom

Hittite Empire
surface form: Old Hittite Kingdom
composedOf clay tablets
contains administrative texts
cult inventories
diplomatic texts
historical annals
incantations
legal texts
letters
mythological texts
omen texts
religious texts
ritual texts
royal edicts
treaties
discoveredBy archaeologists in the late 19th and 20th centuries
foundAt Boğazköy
Emar
Boğazköy (Hattusa)
surface form: Hattusa

Kültepe
Maşat Höyük
Ortaköy
surface form: Ortaköy

Sapinuwa
Ugarit
includes copy of Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty
language Akkadian
surface form: Akkadian language

Hittite (Nesite)
surface form: Hittite language

Hurrian
surface form: Hurrian language

Cuneiform Luwian
surface form: Luwian language

Sumerian language
mainCenter Hittite archives self-linksurface differs
surface form: Hattusa archives

Hittite archives self-linksurface differs
surface form: Hattusa royal archives
material baked clay
preservationMethod firing of clay tablets
scriptType cuneiform script
significance primary source for Hittite history
primary source for Hittite law
primary source for Hittite religion
primary source for Late Bronze Age diplomacy
storedInAntiquityAs administrative archives
palace archives
temple archives
usedBy Hittite Empire
Hittite administration
writingSystem Akkadian cuneiform
Mesopotamian cuneiform
surface form: Hittite cuneiform

Hurrian cuneiform
Luwian hieroglyphic
Mesopotamian cuneiform
surface form: Sumerian cuneiform

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Cuneiform Luwian usedIn Hittite archives
Suppiluliuma I source Hittite archives
this entity surface form: Hittite royal annals
Mursili II sourceOfInformation Hittite archives
this entity surface form: Hittite royal annals
Late Bronze Age collapse historicalSource Hittite archives
this entity surface form: Hittite texts
Hittite laws foundIn Hittite archives
this entity surface form: royal archives of Hattusa
Sun goddess of Arinna mentionedIn Hittite archives
this entity surface form: Hittite treaties
Egyptian–Hittite wars documentedBy Hittite archives
this entity surface form: Hittite cuneiform tablets
Palaite attestedIn Hittite archives
Hittite archives mainCenter Hittite archives self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Hattusa archives
Hittite archives mainCenter Hittite archives self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Hattusa royal archives
Karkemish mentionedIn Hittite archives
this entity surface form: Hittite texts
Bedřich Hrozný hasWork Hittite archives
this entity surface form: Hethitische Keilschrifttafeln aus Boghazköi
Hittite royal court documentedIn Hittite archives
this entity surface form: Hittite cuneiform tablets
Hittite royal court documentedIn Hittite archives
this entity surface form: Hattusa archives
Boğazköy hasDiscovery Hittite archives
this entity surface form: Boğazköy cuneiform tablets
Suppiluliuma II attestedIn Hittite archives
this entity surface form: Boghazkoy archives