06.02.2026

New project in Florence to study the Hittite Laws

The Fritz Thyssen Stiftung has approved two years of funding for the project: Corpus Relectum (CoRel): The Hittite Laws between Past and Present (PI Giulia Torri). The project, based at the University of Florence, will carry out a systematic study of the Hittite Laws, their final online publication in HPM, and the paleographic and terminological analysis of the manuscripts. This will include an edition of the second series of Hittite Laws (CTH 292), complementing the recently published online edition of the first series (CTH 291) (go to the edition here).

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28.01.2026

New links to critical text editions in the Konkordanz – links to older editions working again

The recent critical editions of Hittite festivals (HFR) and laws (CHiL) can now be accessed directly through the Konkordanz. The dynamic links ("EDITIO") connect individual manuscripts with the corresponding version of the text composition. This is located just below the link to the transliteration of the text in TLH^dig.

Furthermore, links in the Konkordanz to older text editions on HPM (under "Anmerkungen"/"Comments") are now functioning again (see the post from 22.01.2026). Access to these text editions remains available through the lists available under "Text Corpora" (on the HPM home page or in the gray menu bar at the top of HPM sub-pages).

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22.01.2026

Work-around solution to defunct links to HPM text editions in the Konkordanz

The links to the text editions in the Konkordanz sub Comments/Anmerkungen are currently not functioning. We are working to repair this, but in the meantime the editions are still available online. Please access these from the lists available under "Text Corpora" (on the HPM home page or in the gray menu bar at the top of HPM sub-pages). There, you can select the text genre and access the relevant pages with lists of the editions according to their CTH numbers.

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21.01.2026

New edition first series of Hittite laws (CTH 291) now online

The critical edition of CTH 291, the first series of the Hittite Laws (“If a man…”), is now online (see here). Nearly 60 years after the Italian-language edition of the Corpus of Hittite Laws edited by Fiorella Imparati, a team from the University of Florence (G. Torri, L. Warbinek, and A. Carnevale) is providing a new and digital edition of the various manuscripts that are part of the corpus of the so-called Hittite Laws. The edition of the second series CTH 292 ("If a vine...") will follow in the coming months.

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20.01.2026

A new critical edition of the Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-) now online

Within the scope of HFR, Adam Kryszeń (Universität Marburg / University of Warsaw) presents a new critical edition of the Hittite Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). The edition, which can be accessed here, includes the transliteration and translation of approximately two hundred manuscripts grouped under CTH 626. In addition, it offers a concise introduction to the festival and provides a separate discussion of each day of the observance.

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19.12.2025

We would like to inform users of HPM that, at the request of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Türkiye, which reserves the publication rights, Aygül Süel's transliterations of unpublished cuneiform tablets and fragments discovered during excavations at Ortaköy-Šapinuwa have been removed from the HPM digital infrastructure.

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22.11.2025

Thousands of new texts on TLH^dig

The TLH^dig online text corpus has been supplemented by the transliterations of thousands of texts. These include ca. 1350 fragments rediscovered in the museum in Boğazköy in August 2025 (EBo 73–1446) as well as texts recently published in DAAM 3 (Ş. Bozgun) and DAAM 4 (S. Çilingir Cesur). In addition, most of the published texts still missing in TLH^dig – Beta Version 0.2 have now been included in the recent update to Version 0.3. This brings TLH^dig closer to its goal of providing digital transliterations of all available Hittite texts. The entire TLH^dig XML dataset is available for download (for more information, see here).

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22.11.2025

Maintenance on the HFR critical editions website

Due to major restructuring of our server, the website of the critical editions of HFR is currently undergoing maintenance. Some presentation modes may not be available or may not work properly. Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the technical problems as quickly as possible.

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04.11.2025

Now Online at HPM: Palaeographicum — A Milestone in Digital Cuneiform Palaeography

The Konkordanz now provides access to a comprehensive record of the signs and sign forms found on cuneiform tablets written by Hittite scribes. Employing state-of-the-art AI methods, Gerfrid G. W. Müller has developed a tool that automatically extracts cuneiform signs from digital photographs in the photo collection of the Hittitology Archive at the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature, which are now made available (open access; click cuneiform A symbol in Konkordanz text entries).

The version launched on 3 November 2025 offers access to 3.5 million individual attestations; an expanded version with more than 5 million attestations is currently in preparation. This innovative tool revolutionizes palaeographical research in Hittite studies, providing quick and convenient access to palaeographic tables based on photographs and, in the near future, also 3D models.

Research on the Palaeographicum has been funded by the Union of German Academies and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Gerfrid Müller has developed this tool in collaboration with various partners, including at the Technische Universität Dortmund and the Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität at the University of Würzburg.

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20.08.2025

Critical editions of Hittite-Luwian conjurations now online

Under the auspices of the Luwili and LuwGramm projects, Valerii Ivanov and Ilya Yakubovich (both of the University of Marburg) have prepared critical editions of the Hittite-Luwian conjuration texts booked under CTH 764–766. The editions include 39 individual text compositions whose origins can be traced back linguistically to Luwian local traditions. You can access the editions here.

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10.06.2025

“Hittite Depositions” project now hosted on HPM

A detailed introduction to the project “Hittite Depositions”, led by Rita Francia and Matteo Vigo (principal investigators) of the “Sapienza” University of Rome, can now be found on HPM (go to the project page here: www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/HDep). Transliterations of the texts (CTH 293–297) will be available soon on the website, and critical editions will follow subsequently.

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19.05.2025

TLH^dig dataset available for download

The TLH^dig online text corpus is based on a dataset of annotated transliterations in XML format. To facilitate the use of the XML dataset by developers, philologists, and linguists within the framework of their own research objectives, the TLH^dig team has made versions of this TLH^dig XML dataset available on the zenodo.org repository. Read more here.

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07.05.2025

Hittites featured in National Geographic Magazine

The May 2025 issue of National Geographic featured an article highlighting the Hittite civilization. Members from the Boğazköy-Ḫattuša excavation team as well as from the HFR project provided interviews and expertise to the magazine for the article. Read the article online here.

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18.03.2025

Now Online at HPM: TLH^dig 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 (TLH^dig 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, TLH^dig has become one of the digital tools that Hittitologists use every day, with more than 100,000 accesses per month. Now, TLH^dig 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. TLH^dig 1.0, expected in late 2025, will offer complete coverage of all published texts.

See the full press release here.

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18.03.2025

HPM’de şimdi çevrimiçi: TLH^dig 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 (TLH^dig 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 TLH^dig, Hititologların her gün kullandığı dijital araçlardan biri haline geldi ve aylık 100.000’den fazla erişim aldı. Şimdi, TLH^dig 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. TLH^dig 1.0, 2025’in sonlarında yayımlandığında, tüm yayımlanmış metinlerin eksiksiz bir kapsama ulaşmasını sağlayacaktır.

Türkçe basın açıklamasının tamamına buradan ulaşabilirsiniz.

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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 TLH^dig (https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/TLHdig/).

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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