Home›Open Questions›Who promulgated the Hittite Laws: a named king, an anonymous royal court, or some other authority the surviving tablets do not record?Open QuestionsWho promulgated the Hittite Laws: a named king, an anonymous royal court, or some other authority the surviving tablets do not record?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextLaw Atlas. "Who promulgated the Hittite Laws: a named king, an anonymous royal court, or some other authority the surviving tablets do not record?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://law.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/hittite-laws-promulgator-unknown.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextLaw Atlas. (n.d.). Who promulgated the Hittite Laws: a named king, an anonymous royal court, or some other authority the surviving tablets do not record?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://law.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/hittite-laws-promulgator-unknownCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{lawatlas-who-promulgated-the-hittite-laws-a-named, author = {Law Atlas}, title = {Who promulgated the Hittite Laws: a named king, an anonymous royal court, or some other authority the surviving tablets do not record?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://law.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/hittite-laws-promulgator-unknown}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe 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.OpenHittitology / Ancient Near Eastern StudiesHittite Laws (Wikipedia)Cross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnHittite Laws, Codes Well-attested Source Hittite Laws (Wikipedia)tier 2SourcesHittite Laws (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaAuthorship sectionComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year