The Hittite site near the town Ortaköy (Çorum Province Turkey) has been the subject of
archaeological investigations since 1990 and has produced a large number of cuneiform text
finds from the Early Empire period of the Hittite kingdom (14th cent. BCE). The texts show that
the site is to be identified with the Hittite city of Sapinuwa which served as royal residence
and capital of the Hittite kingdom during the reign of Tut aliya II. In the present volume
Aygül Süel the director of the excavations and Daniel Schwemer publish the Akkadian and
Sumerian tablets and fragments from Ortaköy-Sapinuwa which were mainly found in the palace
archives of Sapinuwa. The texts display the full range of motivations and contexts of writing
Akkadian and Sumerian in Hittite Anatolia including Sumerian lexical texts and Akkadian
literary fragments of primarily scholastic interest Akkadian devotional texts that were
adapted for the religious practice of the Hittite royal family as well as fragments of the
Akkadian diplomatic correspondence of the Hittite king. The volume is bilingual and offers all
texts in English and in Turkish.
