Abstract:

Hittites who had lived in Anatolia and established a great civilization applied their own language through cuneiform on thousands of clay tablets. The scribes were the ones to carve the Hittite cuneiform on such tablets which were classified as King annuals, political treaties, legal texts, regulations on directive texts, religious texts: prayer texts, rituals, texts narrating the feast ceremonies, texts of the auguries and sorceries. In ?attuša, the capital city of Hittites, fifty scribes, thirty two of which were wooden tablet scribes, were assigned. The scribes were being trained in scribe schools. Since it was difficult to learn the Hittite cuneiform which had 375 figures in total, the training was being given in childhood. It’s known that the scribes, after completing their training, had to copy hundreds of tablets for being archived in the capital city archive or for being circulated to several places. The profession was being handed down from father to son. It was being selected by exclusive families of the Hittite society. Credibility in the profession was very important since the scribes were recording the correspondences with the kings of the Asia Minor states and vassals, kingdom decrees, grant land and verdicts of the cases. The names of the Hittite scribes and sometimes their pedigrees and inspectors were being acquainted from the tablet colophons. The name of Ukki?a city which we know from Hittite cuneiform tablets can be seen only in three text of “colophon”. From these “colophons”, the name of Lili-?al?a who is the scribe of Kizzu?atna King Pilli?a’s ritual, was the scribe of Pi?a-mu?a who can only be seen in “colophon” and was ?al?aziti who is the scribe of Bronze tablet, and it was learnt that the name of the father was Lupakki. It can be thought that this city was important center for educating scribe since of the name of city only related with scribe.

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