TROIS CHANTS SACRÉS MUWATALLI

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Muwatalli is a sacred song in the Hittite language. The texts are contemporary with King Muwatalli, who was an adversary of Pharaoh Ramses II around 1300 BC. Specialists have a fairly good understanding of Hittite, which is a language of the Indo-European family, but its phonetics remain partially unknown due to a writing system that mixes ideograms and a syllabary. It is not known how the Hittites pronounced the ideograms, and these have been systematically eliminated from the fragments selected here.