# The Kalašma tablet, Bo 2023/12 (KBo 71.145)

> The lower half of a single-column Hittite ritual tablet found in 2023 on the north-west slope of Büyükkale at Hattusa, 109 by 98 by 38 mm as preserved…

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# The Kalašma tablet, Bo 2023/12 (KBo 71.145)

DocumentOpen access, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; licence as stated on the article page13th century BC (script)

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**Not kept here.** This copy isn't ours to show. [See it where it's published](https://publications.dainst.org/journals/aa/article/view/4461).

The lower half of a single-column Hittite ritual tablet found in 2023 on the north-west slope of Büyükkale at Hattusa, 109 by 98 by 38 mm as preserved, with a thirteenth-century script. Its Hittite instructions for offering meat, bread and drink frame a recitation in the language of Kalašma, a previously unknown Luwic Anatolian language.

Elisabeth Rieken, Ilya Yakubovich, Daniel Schwemer. Open access, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; licence as stated on the article page

## Copies 1

**First edition with photographs and transliteration (archäologischer anzeiger 2024, open access)** Elisabeth Rieken, Ilya Yakubovich, Daniel Schwemer · publications.dainst.org · 2024-11-15 · Open access, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; licence as stated on the article pagePrimary source: [Eine neue Sprache im Hethiterreich: Der Fund der Kalašma-Tafel (Bo 2023/12 = KBo 71.145)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKC20ZP70/eine-neue-sprache-im-hethiterreich-der-fund-der-kalasma)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://publications.dainst.org/journals/aa/article/view/4461)

## Sources 2

- [Eine neue Sprache im Hethiterreich: Der Fund der Kalašma-Tafel (Bo 2023/12 = KBo 71.145)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKC20ZP70/eine-neue-sprache-im-hethiterreich-der-fund-der-kalasma)_SRC_
- [New Indo-European Language Discovered (press release, Universität Würzburg, 21 September 2023)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKNR46FZV/new-indo-european-language-discovered-press-release)_SRC_

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The Kalašma tablet, Bo 2023/12 (KBo 71.145) [Artifact ART0DEDTTZCQSRB]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDTTZCQSRB
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Boğazköy excavation (Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism)

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13th century BC (script)

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