Ahmet Ünal

Ahmet Ünal is an author, Hittitologist, and historian of ancient Anatolia whose scholarship interprets cuneiform records through language, ritual, politics, and everyday practice. Hittite and Hurrian Cuneiform Tablets from Ortaköy (Çorum), Central Turkey presents a demanding route into primary documents, combining tablet study with focused discussions of divine and ritual figures. The Hittite Ritual of Ḫantitaššu from the City of Ḫurma Against Troublesome Years is narrower in scale: its full edition shows how a single ritual text can illuminate religious procedure, textual transmission, and the concerns of a historical community. Readers already comfortable with specialist terminology can begin with the Ortaköy study for breadth, then use the Ḫantitaššu edition as a close-reading case. Those new to Hittite studies may reverse that order, moving from one bounded ritual to the larger collection. Together the works reveal Ünal's method.