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MysteriesHattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archivesArtifactsThe Hattic-Hittite bilinguals from Hattusa (CTH 725 to 745)The Hattic-Hittite bilinguals: Schuster's 1974 edition, scanned (NYU Ancient World Digital Library)
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The Hattic-Hittite bilinguals: Schuster's 1974 edition, scanned (NYU Ancient World Digital Library)

DocumentCopyright Koninklijke Brill NV; viewable online, no reuse licenceCopies of the 16th to 13th centuries BC; the texts themselves are Old Hittite, c. 1650 to 1500 BCCopy of The Hattic-Hittite bilinguals from Hattusa (CTH 725 to 745)
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About 15 tablets and fragments from Hattusa in which a Hattic recitation is followed by a Hittite translation, among about 359 Hattic fragments in all. The best preserved are the building ritual KBo 37.1 and the myth of the Moon that fell from the sky, KUB 28.3 to 5. They are the only key to the Hattic language.

Hans-Siegfried Schuster (edition); NYU Libraries (scan), 1650. Copyright Koninklijke Brill NV; viewable online, no reuse licence

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Schuster's 1974 edition, scanned (nyu ancient world digital library)Hans-Siegfried Schuster (edition); NYU Libraries (scan) · sites.dlib.nyu.edu · 1974 · Copyright Koninklijke Brill NV; viewable online, no reuse licencePrimary source: Die ḫattisch-hethitischen Bilinguen I: Einleitung, Texte und Kommentar, Teil 11 step from the original

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IstanbulBursaSamsunKayseriEskişehirSakaryaSivas1Museum of Anatolian Civilizations200 kmIstanbulİzmirBursaKonya1200 km

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