Hittite Votive Texts

Votive texts or vows were already a well known religious phenomenon in

the 13th century BC, but at that time the Hittites started to expand the

genre into an interesting administrative process. Both the temple and

the palace sent each other reminders when a promised object had not yet

been received or when the god had not yet fulfilled a wish.

Vows are a genre of Hittite literature that has hitherto not been

treated extensively.
This publication contains

transcriptions and translations of nearly all votive texts and text

fragments that have been published as text copies (ca. 80 texts), as

well as fifteen hitherto unpublished text fragments. The general

introduction (70 pp.) contains paragraphs on gods and mortals, the

places where the vow or dream occur, the gods invoked and the dating of

the votive texts. The second part of the volume contains the text

transliterations, translations and commentary, arranged according to CTH

583, 584 and 590.