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Who promulgated the Hittite Laws: a named king, an anonymous royal court, or some other authority the surviving tablets do not record?

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The surviving Hittite Laws tablets do not name an author or promulgating authority. Some historians infer the source was someone of high rank in Hittite society, possibly a king, but this is scholarly inference rather than an attested statement in the text itself.

What would resolve this A Hittite royal inscription, colophon, or independent Hittitological source naming the specific king or court that issued the laws would resolve this; absent that, the promulgator may simply be unrecoverable from the surviving record.
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