18.03.2025

Now Online at HPM: TLHdig 0.2

Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform Studies by a team of researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg

In 2023, the Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum Digitalis (TLHdig 0.1) was launched on the Hethitologie-Portal Mainz platform (HPM) as an innovative digital tool providing comprehensive access to transliterations of cuneiform texts from Hittite tablet collections. Ever since its initial launch, TLHdig has become one of the digital tools that Hittitologists use every day, with more than 100,000 accesses per month. Now, TLHdig 0.2 has gone online, comprising more than 98% of all published sources—approximately 22,000 XML text documents, many of which consist of multiple rejoined fragments. Currently the corpus consists of almost 400,000 transliterated lines. TLHdig 1.0, expected in late 2025, will offer complete coverage of all published texts.

See the full press release here.

18.03.2025

HPM’de şimdi çevrimiçi: TLHdig 0.2

Mainz, Marburg ve Würzburg’dan bir araştırma ekibi tarafından dijital çivi yazısı çalışmalarında büyük bir dönüm noktası.

2023 yılında, Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum Digitalis (TLHdig 0.1), Hethitologie-Portal Mainz (HPM) platformunda yenilikçi bir dijital araç olarak kullanıma sunuldu. Bu araç, Hitit tablet koleksiyonlarına ait çivi yazılı metinlerin transliterasyonlarına kapsamlı erişim sağlamaktadır. İlk kullanıma sunulduğundan bu yana TLHdig, Hititologların her gün kullandığı dijital araçlardan biri haline geldi ve aylık 100.000’den fazla erişim aldı. Şimdi, TLHdig 0.2 çevrimiçi olarak erişilebilir. Bu sürüm, yayımlanmış tüm kaynakların %98’inden fazlasını kapsamakta olup toplamda yaklaşık olarak 22.000 XML metin belgesi içermektedir. Bunların çoğu, birleştirilmiş birçok metin parçasından oluşmaktadır. Şu anda külliyat yaklaşık 400.000 transliterasyonlu satırdan oluşmaktadır. TLHdig 1.0, 2025’in sonlarında yayımlandığında, tüm yayımlanmış metinlerin eksiksiz bir kapsama ulaşmasını sağlayacaktır.

Türkçe basın açıklamasının tamamına buradan ulaşabilirsiniz.

07.03.2025

Latest text discoveries from Ḫattuša published in KBo 71

During the 2024 excavation season in Boğazköy-Ḫattuša (https://www.dainst.org/forschung/projekte/noslug/2280) almost 40 Hittite and Akkadian cuneiform texts were found, among them important historical texts, previously unknown rituals, and festival texts. They are now published in fascicle 8 of the 71st volume of Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi. Go to https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/kbo/ for the catalogue and cuneiform copies (open access). Transliterations will follow soon on TLHdig (https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/TLHdig/).

19.02.2025

New Publication of Hittite Fragments in DAAM 3

We congratulate Şafak Bozgun (University of Ankara) on his publication of 161 Hittite fragments in his new book Boğazköy Tablets in the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations (Bo 95–Bo 3993) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesinde Bulunan Boğazköy Tabletleri (Bo 95–Bo 3993), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2025, which appeared as the third volume of the series Documenta Antiqua Asiae Minoris (DAAM).

31.12.2024

Critical editions of Palaic festival rituals go online

Within the scope HFR, Susanne Görke (Universität Marburg) has presented critical editions of festival descriptions pertaining to the Palaic religious tradition (see here). The texts include CTH 610, portions of CTH 626, and CTH 750–753.

18.12.2024

Corpus of Hittite Laws (CHiL) on HPM

A new project, "The Corpus of Hittite Laws" (CHiL), led by Giulia Torri, Antonio Carnevale and Livio Warbinek (all from the University of Florence) has presented first results of an ambitious text edition project on HPM. In addition to an introduction (introduction to CHiL), the project has already made many of the texts of the corpus (CTH 291–292) available in the form of digital annotated transliterations online (see here). The texts are fully searchable, and critical editions of the corpus of Hittite laws should follow soon.

28.10.2024

Hittite Palace-Temple Administrative Corpus (PTAC) goes online

The annotated transliterations of the "Hittite Palace-Temple Administrative Corpus" (PTAC) are now available online (see here). This digital text corpus is based on the 2-volume work by J. Burgin (Studies in Hittite Economic Administration, StBoT 70–71, Wiesbaden, 2022), and is fully searchable. An online version of the critical edition of these texts is planned to be published soon on the same website.