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Kadesh Treaty from HattusasKadesh TreatyEgyptian green stone- altar?The House on the SlopeHieroglyphics, Nisantas, HattusaHattusa, Temple VII, ground planHattusa - City Gate - SfinxHattusaHattusa - North part of the cityHattusaThe HattusaThe HattusaHattusaHattusa - The Hittite imperial city - reconstructionHattusa - Lion GateHattusa - cityHatti - Hieroglyphic Chamber (II) - descriptionHattusa - cityHatti - Hieroglyphic Chamber (II)Hattusa - cityHatti - Hieroglyphic Chamber (II)Hattusa, Temple VI, ground planLion Gate, HattusaLions` Gate of HattusaHattusa, Temple IV, ground planHattusa, Temple II, ground planHattusa, Temenos Temple VHattusa, Temple III, ground plan

Location:

  • Türkiye, Boğazkale
  • geo:40.0196,34.615761
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -1700~ / -1300~

Class:

  • Building (other)
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=24102

Annotations

In the library were discovered more than thirty thousand cuneiform tablets (some are only fragmentary preserved), archived and classified, which was written in eigt languages..  (There are many fragments which could be join into the whole tablets.) Documents has been written in cuneiform  writing  in  Hittite-Sumerian-Akkadian  and  Hurrian languages. Archives of Hattusa includes royal annals, treaties, political correspondence, legal, texts, inventory texts, along with the administrative instructions, mythological texts, religious texts: rituals, and cults, festivals and prayer texts, and also oracles,  predictions, and  incantations. Among them are bilingual texts:Hattian-Hittite, Akkadian-Hittite and also Hurrian-Hittite.

 

Sources:

  1. Cem Karasu, SOME REMARKS ON ARCHIVE-LIBRARY SYSTEMS OF HATTUSA-BOĞAZKÖY,  Archivum Anatolicum  2, 1996, pp. 40-59 (http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/10/2177/22567.pdf)
  2. Kim Ryholt, Gojko Barjamovic, Libraries Before Alexandria: Ancient Near Eastern Traditions, Oxford University Press 2019

Relevant museums

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Istanbul Archaeology Museums


Nearby

Kadesh Treaty

Museum of the Ancient Orient - Eski Şark Eserli Müzesi, Istanbul Archaeological Museums.

Hattusa, Great Temple [Temple I]

Hittite temple in Lower City. Hattusa Temple I.

Hattusa (Hattuşaş) - Egyptian Stone

Egiptian perfectly polished stone in the side chamber of the Great Temple complex. Green Stone.


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