Hittite — The Hittitologist

The Hittitologist — Anatolia in cuneiform, KBo and KUB by tablet and line.

The Hittite desk: TLHdig’s tablet corpus (dual-tagged cuneiform by ruling — its lines also carry Akkadian, Sumerian, Luwian, Hattic, Hurrian), the glossed Hittite texts, the UD Hittite treebank, and ACLT’s Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions.

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The shelves

A source wears every desk it serves — these five answer this desk. Holdings are read live from the catalog and dated; a shelf with nothing synced yet says so.

Source	Holds	License	Status	Holdings (as of 7 November 2026)
`aclt`	texts	research_private	wired · manual	266 docs / 2,682 passages
`hittite-glossed`	texts	open	wired · manual	7,099 docs / 72,507 passages
`tlhdig`	tablets	attribution	wired · manual	23,486 docs / 402,195 passages
`ud`	treebank	nc	wired · manual	83 docs / 329,980 passages
`wiktionary-hit`	dictionary	attribution	wired · manual	481 entries

Languages on this desk (live doc-or-entry counts as of 7 November 2026): hit 28,790 · akk 936 · xhu 698 · xht 326 · hlu 266 · xlu 206 · sux 80 · plq 30 · und 3.

Carried in by multilingual packs (ud — whole-source members whose other languages ride along, as of 7 November 2026): lat 11 · grc 9 · orv 9 · ota 5 · lzh 4 … and 18 more (nabu axis hittite lists all).

The desk’s instruments

The Hittite desk: TLHdig’s tablet corpus (KBo and KUB by tablet and line — dual-tagged cuneiform, its lines also carrying Akkadian, Sumerian, Luwian, Hattic and Hurrian) and the UD Hittite treebank (gold hit).
The dictionary shelf is registered and awaits its first sync: the Wiktionary Hittite kaikki extract (sense glosses by cuneiform headword, hit→akk borrowing chains). No alignment work rides this desk yet.

Working the hittite desk

The generic desk surfaces — every desk answers to these, in working order (enable once, sync, then query):

nabu enable hittite               # first time: put this desk's shelves in this box's profile
nabu sync hittite                 # fetch/refresh the desk's enabled members
nabu list --axis hittite          # the shelf census, this desk only
nabu axis hittite                 # the desk card: members, holdings, gold coverage
nabu search WORD --axis hittite   # a query scoped to this desk's shelves

This desk’s own surfaces:

nabu search --lemma kuiš --lang hit --axis hittite  # the gold UD Hittite morphology (kuiš "who", clause by clause)
nabu show --random --source tlhdig    # pull a random tablet manuscript off the Hittite shelf
nabu search ḫatti --axis hittite      # a query across TLHdig and the treebank — Ḫatti on the tablets

Ask your model

With the MCP server connected, this desk answers conversational research questions. Each example ran live against this library:

“Find nepišaš — ‘of heaven’ — in the tablets.” → nabu_search "ne-pi-ša-aš" (lang: hit) — Mythological fragments (KBo 26.91, KBo 26.120) with damage brackets preserved. The desk’s lesson: TLHdig stores the syllabified transliteration, so type it hyphenated — the diacritic fold maps pí to pi for you.

Terminal setup

TLHdig tablets are stored in Latin transliteration, so no cuneiform font is needed. No RTL or CJK concerns. Note: TLHdig is not in the --fuzzy index — use plain search --axis hittite.

The full guidance, per script, is on the display page.

One of the 30 research desks; the flat shelf map is The Library and the reasoning is docs/axes.md.