The Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg announced the discovery of Kalasmaic in 2023, based on a clay tablet (indexed KBo 71.145[2]) from the Bogazköy Archive excavated at Hattusa, the Hittite capital.[3] The tablet, written in Hittite cuneiform of the 13th century BCE,[2] is one of many in the archive recording rituals of the empire's subject and neighbouring peoples.[1] Its Hittite-language introduction describes its main text as in "the language of the land of "[1] (URUka-la-aš-mi-li[2]).
At the time its discovery was announced, the text itself had not been deciphered.[1] Categorization of Kalasmaic within Anatolian is unclear; it is possibly a member of the Luwic branch.[4] The text was published on 2 February 2024 by Daniel Schwemer.[5][6][7]
Schwemer, Daniel (2024). Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi(PDF) (in German). Vol. 71. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. pp. XIX, XXXI [text], 42-43 [images]. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
External links
Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalisSearch for "KBo 71.145" for transliteration of tablet (and gloss of Hittite introduction)