GUIDE TO USING THE
CATALOG OF HITTITE TEXTS
Treatments:
MOST ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS CATALOG EITHER FOLLOW THOSE USED IN THE CHICAGO HITTITE DICTIONARY OR ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING EDITED TO FOLLOW THE CHD.
A LIST OF CHD ABBREVIATIONS IS BEING PLANNED FOR THIS PAGE.
IN THE MEANTIME, CHECK YOUR LOCAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FOR A COPY OF THE DICTIONARY.
Editing the Catalog is a BIG job, so please bear with me. Thanks.
Text references:
Roman numerals (I., II., etc.) indicate independent rescensions of a particular composition.
Arabic numerals (1., 2., etc.) indicate parallel versions of a composition.
Capital letters (A., B., etc.) indicate duplicate copies of essentially the same composition.
The plus sign (+) indicates a join (two fragments of the same tablet, which have been published in separate places)
Text volumes:
KBo = Keilschrifttexte aus Bogazkoey
KUB = Keilschrifturkunden aus Bogazkoey
VAT = Inventory numbers of tablets in the Staatliche Museen in Berlin
VBoT = Verstreute Boghazkoei-Texte, 1930.
ABoT = Ankara Arkeoloji Muzesinde bulunan Bogazkoey Tabletleri, 1948.
Bo = Inventory numbers of Boghazkoey tablets excavated 1906-12.
FHG = E. Laroche, Fragments hittites de Geneve, RA 45 (1951); 46 (1952).
FHL = J.-M. Durand et E. Laroche, Fragments hittites du Louvre, Memorial Atatuerk, Paris 1982.
HFAC = Hittite Fragments in American Collections. JCS 37/1 (1985) 1-60.
HKM = S. Alp, Hethitische Keilschrifttafeln aus Masat - HûyÄk, Ankara 1991.
HT - Hittite Texts in the Cuneiform Character in the British Museum, 1920.
IBoT = Bogazkoey Tablets in the Archaeological Museums of Istanbul, Ankara
JCS = Journal of Cuneiform Studies
E.g., KUB 38.1 iv 12 = volume 38 of Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazköy, text no. 1, column 4, line 12.