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  • Türkiye, Boğazkale
  • geo:40.0196,34.615761

Period or year

  • -1700~ / -1300~

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  • building
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Library, Hattusa

data access 24102

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

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-01-04) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/24102
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Library, Hattusa. https://vici.org/vici/24102, accessed 2026-11-07.