The corpus of texts written in the Hittite language is indexed by the Catalogue des Textes Hittites (CTH, since 1971, edited by Emmanuel Laroche). Hittite or Nesili is the Extinct language once spoken by the Hittites, a people who created an empire centered on ancient Hattusas (modern Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Emmanuel Laroche (1914&ndash1991 was an expert of ancient Anatolian languages ( Indo-European and Hurrian) Studies of selected texts are published in the StBoT series. Studien zu den Bogazkoy -Texten (abbreviated StBoT) edited by the German Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur, Mainz, since 1965

The CTH numbering is arranged as follows:

• Historical Texts (CTH 1-220)
• Administrative Texts (CTH 221-290)
• Legal Texts (CTH 291-298)
• Lexical Texts (CTH 299-309)
• Literary Texts (CTH 310-320)
• Mythological Texts (CTH 321-370)
• Hymns and Prayers (CTH 371-389)
• Ritual Texts (CTH 390-500)
• Cult Inventory Texts (CTH 501-530)
• Omen and Oracle Texts (CTH 531-582)
• Vows (CTH 583-590)
• Festival Texts (CTH 591-724)
• Texts in Other Languages (CTH 725-830)
• Texts of Unknown Type (CTH 831-833)

Selected texts

Hittite texts with dedicated Wikipedia articles

• Anitta text
• Hittite military oath
• Hittite laws
• Kikkuli's horse training instructions
• Manapa-Tarhunda letter
• Milawata letter
• Tawagalawa letter
• Song of Kumarbi
• Myth of Illuyanka

External links

• Hittite text concordance database
• CTH index
• TITUS database
• Selection of Hittite Texts in Translation

Anitta, son of Pithana, was a king of Kussara, a city that has yet to be identified The Hittite military oath ( CTH 427 is a Hittite text on two cuneiform tablets The Hittite laws have been preserved on a number of Hittite cuneiform tablets found at Hattusa ( CTH 291-292 listing 200 laws Kikkuli, "master horse trainer ( assussanni, virtually Sanskrit aśva-sana-) of the land Mitanni " (LÚ A-AŠ-ŠU-UŠ-ŠA-AN-NI The Manapa-Tarhunta letter (CTH 191 KUB 195 + KBo 1979 is a Hittite letter discovered in the 1980s The Milawata letter (CTH 182 is a diplomatic correspondence from a Hittite king at Hattusa to a Client king in western Anatolia around 1240 The Tawagalawa letter ( CTH 181 was written by a Hittite king (generally accepted as Hattusili III) to a king of Ahhiyawa around 1250 BC The Song of Kumarbi ( CTH 344 also Kingship in Heaven) is the title given to a Hittite version of the Hurrian Kumarbi myth In Hittite mythology, Illuyanka was a serpentine Dragon slain by Tarhunt ( the Hittite incarnation of the Hurrian

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