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Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum Digitalis

In the “Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis” (TLHdig) project, researchers from Mainz, Marburg and Würzburg created a comprehensive digital repository of cuneiform manuscripts from the clay tablet collections of Hittite Anatolia and northern Syria (ca. 1600-1200 BC). The DFG included this project in its funding program.

As a component of the digital infrastructure “Hittitology Portal Mainz” (HPM; http://hethiter.net), TLHdig provides online access to around 30,000 transliterated cuneiform manuscripts written in Hittite and other languages used by Hittite scribes. Through its integration into the HPM digital infrastructure, TLHdig is networked in many ways with other Hittite research resources. An essential basis for TLHdig is the lexical file collection, which was created as part of the Academy project “Hittite Research” (completed in 2015) and is maintained in the Hittitology Archive of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz.

The corpus of cuneiform texts from Hittite sites is constantly growing. TLHdig is therefore designed as an open and growing repository in whose further expansion the entire specialist community is participating: an innovative tool which, as a living archive of cuneiform manuscripts in transliteration, aims to be neither a lexicon nor a critical text edition, but at the same time opens up completely new access to the text sources for any demanding philological, lexicographical and linguistic research relating to the culture and history of the Hittites.

The TLHdig project is part of the research landscape that has grown around the academy project “Corpus der hethitischen Festrituale” (2016-36, http://www.adwmainz.de/projekte/corpus-der-hethitischen-festrituale) and includes a number of other DFG- and BMBF-funded projects in Mainz, Marburg and Würzburg.

Project management:

Gerfrid G. W. Müller (Mainz Academy/University of Würzburg)
Doris Prechel (University of Mainz)
Elisabeth Rieken (University of Marburg)
Daniel Schwemer (University of Würzburg)

October 1st, 2020 – September 30, 2024