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2026-04-03CHiL: The Corpus of the Hittite Laws
The critical edition of CTH 291, the first series of the Hittite Laws (“If a man…”), is now available online at this address. Almost 60 years after the edition in Italian of the Corpus of Hittite Laws edited by Fiorella Imparati, a team from the University of Florence (G. Torri, L. Warbinek and A. Carnevale) presents a new digital edition of various manuscripts that are part of the corpus of the so-called Hittite Laws. The edition of the second series, CTH 292 (“If a vine…”), will soon follow.
All manuscripts are presented in transliteration, transcription and translation, accompanied by a detailed critical apparatus. The system (developed by the HFR team) also allows for an immediate display, via a glossing system, of the grammatical analysis of individual lemmas.
The project will continue over the next two years thanks to the funding from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung (Corpus Relectum: The Hittite Laws between Past and Present - CoRel).
(Giulia Torri)