The Boğazköy tablet archives are excavated
Excavations at Boğazköy in central Anatolia, directed by Hugo Winckler, recovered thousands of cuneiform tablets from the archives of what proved to be Hattusa, capital of the Hittite state. The script was readable and the principal language was not. The find created the corpus from which Hittite would be identified nine years later, and it is the reason an entire Indo-European branch, extinct for three thousand years, entered the comparative record at all.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Hattusa (Boğazkale) · archaeological site · Türkiye
- Hittite · cultural practice · Türkiye · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Die Sprache der Hethiter: ihr Bau und ihre Zugehörigkeit zum indogermanischen Sprachstamm
Supports the identification of Hittite as an Indo-European language, announced in 1915 and set out in full in this volume. V55 verification basis: this session had no access to any source — WebFetch was egress-blocked for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring — so the cited work was not retrieved, and no page, volume or figure quoted from it was re-checked. The 1915 announcement date and the 1906 excavation date under Winckler are given from standing knowledge of the history of the decipherment, not from this volume.
Hinrichs, Leipzig · 1917 · Partly verified
Hrozný, B., Die Sprache der Hethiter (Leipzig, 1917)
Recorded on Hattusa (Boğazkale)
- The Boğazköy tablet archives are excavated
- Hrozný identifies Hittite as an Indo-European language
- Kuryłowicz matches Hittite h to Saussure's coefficients
Related
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