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Aḫḫulla
Aḫḫulla, also written Aḫḫula, is a land of the Hittite Old Kingdom, attested only in the Proclamation of Telipinu among territories lost under King Ammuna around 1550 BC.
Alacahöyük bronze standards
The Alacahöyük bronze standards are 39 Hattian bronze objects from the royal tombs at Alacahöyük, Turkey, dating to about 2300–2000 BC and excavated in the 1930s.
Aleppo Treaty
The Aleppo Treaty is a Hittite state treaty, cataloged as CTH 75, issued by Mursili II for his nephew Talmi-Šarruma, king of Aleppo, in the 13th century BC.
Anatolian hieroglyphs
Anatolian hieroglyphs, also called Luwian hieroglyphs or Hieroglyphic Luwian, are a mixed logo-syllabic script used mainly for the Luwian language from about 1420 to 700 BC.
Anitta text
The Anitta text, also called the Anitta inscription, is the oldest known text in the Hittite language, narrating King Anitta's conquests, including his destruction of Hattusa around 1730 BC.
Annals of Hattusili I
The Annals of Hattusili I are an Old Hittite text, cataloged as CTH 4, recording year by year the campaigns of King Hattusili I around 1650 to 1620 BC.
Apology of Hattusili III
The Apology of Hattusili III (CTH 81) is a Hittite text in which King Hattusili III justifies his seizure of the throne from his nephew Urhi-Teshub.
Arzawa
Arzawa was a kingdom, or group of kingdoms, in western Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age, the Hittites' most powerful western rival until its power was broken by Mursili II.
Boğazköy archive
The Boğazköy archive, also called the Hattusa archive, is the corpus of some 25,000 to 35,000 cuneiform tablets from Ḫattuša, capital of the Hittite kingdom, about 1650–1180 BC.
Bronze Tablet
The Bronze Tablet is a Hittite bronze treaty tablet recording the treaty between King Tudhaliya IV and his cousin Kurunta of Tarhuntassa, found at Hattusa in 1986.
Deeds of Suppiluliuma
The Deeds of Suppiluliuma (CTH 40) is a Hittite biographical account of King Suppiluliuma I, written by his son Mursili II after the king's death around 1322 BC.
Edict of Telipinu
The Edict of Telipinu, also called the Proclamation of Telipinu, is an Old Hittite royal text issued by King Telipinu around 1525–1500 BC, fixing the rule of succession after decades of dynastic murders.
Extensive Annals of Mursili II
The Extensive Annals of Mursili II are a Hittite text in which King Mursili II recounts his campaigns year by year across his reign, c. 1321–1295 BC.
Fıraktın relief
The Fıraktın relief, also spelled Fraktin, is a Hittite rock relief near Kayseri, Turkey, showing King Ḫattušili III and Queen Puduḫepa libating to the Storm-god and Ḫepat.
GAL DUB.SAR
GAL DUB.SAR, also written GAL DUB.SAR.MEŠ, is the Sumerographic title of the chief scribe of the Hittite kingdom, attested at Ḫattuša in the 2nd millennium BC.
GAL GESTIN
GAL GEŠTIN ('Great of the Wine') was a top-level Hittite court title, equivalent to Akkadian rabi karānim, whose holders mainly commanded army units from the early 2nd millennium BC to the kingdom's end.
GAL MESEDI
GAL MEŠEDI is the title of the chief of the royal bodyguards in the Hittite kingdom of Anatolia, usually held by a brother of the king.
Gökbez relief
The Gökbez relief is a Neo-Hittite rock relief of the storm god Tarhunzas at Gökbez village in Niğde Province, Turkey, dated to the 8th century BCE.
Great King (Hittite title)
Great King, written LUGAL.GAL, was the title of Hittite kings ruling from Hattuša about 1650 to 1180 BC, equal in rank to Egypt and Assyria.
Hapalla
Hapalla was a Late Bronze Age kingdom at the eastern edge of the Arzawa lands in western Anatolia, attested in Hittite texts and made a client kingdom by Muršili II.
Hattians
The Hattians were a Bronze Age people of central Anatolia, settled around the Kızılırmak river bend, whose non-Indo-European Hattic language died out by about 1400 BC while its gods and rituals shaped Hittite religion.
Hattic language
Hattic, also called Hattian or Khattic, is a non-Indo-European language of ancient central Anatolia, preserved only in Hittite cuneiform ritual texts and only partially deciphered.
Hattusa Green Stone
The Hattusa Green Stone is a polished, roughly cubic green stone block of about 1,000 kg in the Great Temple at Hattusa, capital of the Hittite Empire.
Hayasa-Azzi
Hayasa-Azzi, also called Azzi-Hayasa, was a Late Bronze Age polity of the Armenian highland and eastern Anatolia, known from Hittite texts of the 14th century BC.
Hittite cuneiform
Hittite cuneiform is the adaptation of Mesopotamian cuneiform to write the Hittite language at Hattuša and other Anatolian sites from about 1650 to 1200 BC, producing an archive of about 30,000 tablets.
Hittite land grants
Hittite land grants, also called donation texts, are royal cuneiform tablets granting state land to institutions and officials, issued chiefly from the 16th to 15th century BC.
Hittite laws
The Hittite laws, or Hittite Law Code, are a collection of about 200 legal clauses in Hittite cuneiform on two tablets, first written in Anatolia ca. 1650 BCE.
Hittite military oath
The Hittite military oath is a Hittite ritual text, cataloged as CTH 427, in which soldiers swore loyalty to the king of Hatti before the gods under curses.
Hittite sun disk
The Hittite sun disk is a Hattian bronze ceremonial standard from the Early Bronze Age royal tombs of Alacahöyük, Turkey, now the symbol of Ankara.
Hittite treaty format
The Hittite treaty format is the fixed six-part structure of Hittite vassal treaties, in which the Great King imposed obligations confirmed by an oath before the gods.