c. 1650 BC–c. 1500 BC
Hittite law collections
Law & constitutions · Codificación y procedimientos
Hittite tablets preserve collections of provisions on injury, property, family, and penalties. Copies and revisions survive unevenly, so the range represents a textual and administrative tradition, not a single promulgation or an unchanging system over centuries.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- End
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: duration of a process.
Sources
- isac.uchicago.edu (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Pending verification: the source could not be accessed
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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