Hittite Cuneiform

Hittite cuneiform is the form of cuneiform script used in writing the Hittite language. The surviving corpus of Hittite texts is preserved in cuneiform on clay tablets dating to the 2nd millennium BC, roughly the 17th to 12th centuries BC, and Hittite orthography was directly adapted from Old Babylonian cuneiform. The Hittite language article describes the script as an adapted form of Peripheral Akkadian cuneiform orthography from Northern Syria and notes its predominantly syllabic nature. In this atlas it is the script of the Hittite language, kept apart from Hieroglyphic Luwian, the script once called Hieroglyphic Hittite.