Hittite Laws - Milestone Documents

Hittite Laws

( ca. 1650–1400 BCE )

Further Reading

Articles

  • Watkins, Calvert. “Hittite and Indo-European Studies: The Denominative Statives in -e-.” TPS (1973): 51–93.

Books

  • Bryce, Trevor. Life and Society in the Hittite World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • ———. The Kingdom of the Hittites, rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • Hoffner, Harry A., Jr. The Laws of the Hittites: A Critical Edition. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1997.
  • ———. “Legal and Social Institutions of Hittite Anatolia.” In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, vol. 1, ed. Jack M. Sasson. Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson, 2000.
  • Roth, Martha. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor, 2nd ed. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1997.

Web Sites

  • “Hittite Home Page.” http://www.mesas.emory.edu/hittitehome/
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Sculptures of large figures thought to be Hittite gods on a rock wall at Gavurkale, Turkey (Library of Congress)

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