This volume continues the systematic edition of the unpublished Bo-texts deposited in the Museum of Ancient Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. As in previous volumes, the tablet fragments are presented in both photographs and transliterations, with succinct philological notes explaining particular forms and relevant text variants. Direct joins with fragments in other museums are shown through digital image processing. Most of the fragments dealt with here are of the usual religious nature—predominantly ritual, festival, cult inventory, and oracular texts. Two fragments provide additions to the genre of royal instructions, while other fragments with the Ullikummi myth, an Old Hittite land grant, a list of towns, a Hattian text, and a medical text represent further text varieties. One small fragment is of special interest because it preserves two distinct layers with cuneiform script in different hands. Each text edition is accompanied, wherever possible, by information about its assignment to a Hittite text or text genre, the date of the composition, the fragment’s measurements, and previous bibliography.
Price: £81.00
Pages: 401
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Imprint: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Series: Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements
Publication Date:
31 August 2026
ISBN: 9781614911487
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient religions and Mythologies, Ancient history
Oğuz Soysal received his bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Languages, History, and Geography at Ankara University and did his doctoral work at the Philipps-University of Marburg and the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, where he received his PhD. Since 2020, he has worked as project director at the University of Marburg.
Mine Çifçi received her bachelor’s degree from Istanbul University. Since 1999, she has been a curator at the Museum of Ancient Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara.
Foreword
List of Abbreviations
Texts Bo 1398–Bo 6002
Index of Proper Names
Select Lexical Entries from Bo 1398–Bo 6002
Lexical Citations
Citations from Other Bo?azköy Texts
Concordance of the CTH Numbers of Bo 1398–Bo 6002 according to CHDS 6 and the Konkordanz
Concordance of Bo-Texts and CHDS 6 Numbers