About LAMAN

LAMAN is a searchable database of Hittite names. The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian civilization (modern-day Türkiye), and their names appear primarily in cuneiform clay tablets dating back to the Late Bronze Age (c. 1700–1200 BCE).

This database helps researchers find and study these names, providing detailed information about:

Divine Names (Deities) - Names of gods and goddesses
Personal Names (People) - Names of individuals
Geographical Names (Places) - Names of cities, mountains, and other locations

Features

Smart Search

Search doesn't differentiate between accents or special characters. Searching "kataha" finds "Kattaḫḫa".

Regex Support

Use regular expressions for advanced searches. E.g., ^A.*li$ finds names starting with A and ending with "li".

Fragment Search

Browse by publication series and fragment to see all names attested in specific tablets.

Detailed Attestations

Each name includes detailed information about where it appears, including line numbers and spellings.

Credits

Developer/Research: M. Ali Akman (Brown University)

Content/Research: Michele Cammarosano (University of Naples 'L'Orientale')

Content/Research: Adam Kryszeń (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

Part of the LAMAN project, building on earlier work by Eileen Xing and Hartmut Oertel from a DFG-funded project on Hittite cult inventories.

Acknowledgments

Catalogue des Textes Hittites (CTH)

All CTH information (numbers, names, descriptions, and dating) in LAMAN is sourced from the hethiter.net portal.

Citation: S. Košak – G.G.W. Müller – S. Görke – Ch.W. Steitler, hethiter.net/: CTH (2025-01-28)

Hittite Toponyms (HiTop)

All attestations of place names in LAMAN are from the Hittite Toponyms (HiTop) database.

Citation: A. Kryszeń, hethiter.net/: HiTop (2023-04-28)

HiTop (Toponyme der Hethiter / Hittite Toponyms) was developed by Adam Kryszeń at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Since 2022, HiTop is supported by the National Science Centre grant OPUS "The City in Hittite Anatolia in the Light of the Cuneiform Sources" (UMO-2021/41/B/HS3/00661).

Contact: adam.kryszen@uw.edu.pl