During the first excavations in Lower City of ¿attuSa conducted by H. Winckler and Th. Makridi
in 1907 Makridi discovered a palace built east of the main Temple. The building was later
named Haus am Hang (House on the Slope HaH) because it leaned on the terraces leading up to
the royal palace on Büyükkale. Several fragments of clay tablets in cuneiform script were
discovered within and around the building during this period and in the following
archaeological investigations until the 1960s. These text fragments exemplified the various
text typologies produced by Hittite scribes. Giulia Torri's research focuses on this collection
of texts in search of the original criteria for its organization inside the building and
provides a new approach in outlining the cultural environment in which the Hittite texts were
produced: As a first step the range of information about the discovery and the find-spots of
the fragments is analyzed and contextualised (Part I). In the second part the texts classified
according to their content as administrative texts chancellery texts and texts of the scribal
tradition are collected studied and compared with their duplicate versions from other
locations with the aim of showing how the Hittite scribes composed and preserved them in this
area of the Lower City (Part II).
