Talk:Hittite laws

Merger proposal

I propose to merge Code of the Nesilim into Hittite laws. The content in the Code of the Nesilim refers to the same ancient legal code as the one referred to in Hittite laws. Nesilim (with a pseudo-Semitic pluralization) is not the Hittites' name for themselves; nešili means only "in the speech of teh city of Nesa" (an important city during the early stages of the Hittite Old Kingdom). Likewise, there is no support in the Hittite texts which might allow us to refer to the Hittites as Nesians. We don't know how the Hittites referred to themselves. The conventional name "Hittites" is due to their initial identification with the Biblical Hittites in 19th century archaeology. Terminology should conform to standards used elsewhere in Wikipedia such as in Hittite language. Eklir (talk) 19:40, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

 Done Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 16:03, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

What Language?

Since the Hittites used 3 different languages (Pali is the only one I can remember offhand), essentially depending on the use, what language is this document written in? Stevenmitchell (talk) 23:30, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Article Format

This article is a mess in its presentation. Shouldn't someone clean it up? Stevenmitchell (talk) 23:30, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Copyright conflict?

It appears this page was copied, verbatim from the Ancient History Sourcebook site. The original publication the text is based on is in the public domain. However, editorial changes have been made to the text and the copyright of those changes has seemingly been explicitly retained, and forbid commercial use of the material, a constraint which would conflict which the Creative Commons Share and Share Alike license under which Wikipedia make all content available. vr rm

 Done Copyrighted material reviewed and removed by User:MER-C and others. Copyvios in edit history have also been made invisible. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 15:12, 29 December 2021 (UTC)