Hittite inscriptions

The Hittite language corpus comprises over 30,000 tablets and fragments discovered across various sites including Hattusa, Maşat Höyük, Kuşaklı/Kayalıpınar, Alalakh, Ougarit, Emar, Amarna, and others. These tablets are now housed in Turkish museums such as those in Ankara, Istanbul, Boğazkale, and Çorum (Ortaköy), as well as international institutions like the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin, the British Museum, and the Musée du Louvre.

The texts are cataloged by the Catalogue des Textes Hittites (CTH) since 1971. This catalogue classifies them into categories such as historical (CTH 1–220), administrative (CTH 221–290), legal (CTH 291–298), lexical (CTH 299–309), literary (CTH 310–320), mythological (CTH 321–370), and others. Selected texts from the Old Kingdom include the Anitta text, Hittite military oath, Hittite laws (CTH 291–292), and the Myth of Illuyanka. Notable New Kingdom texts are Kikkuli's horse training instructions, Indictment of Madduwatta, Manapa-Tarhunta letter, Milawata letter, Song of Kumarbi, Story of Appu, Tawagalawa letter, and Zita.

For further study, resources like the StBoT series, Textzeugnisse der Hethiter database, and Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien are available. References include works by Gary M. Beckman and Harry A. Hoffner on Hittite diplomatic texts.