Hittite Cuneiform tablet Recreation of Ini-Teshub of Carchemish, the Hittite Viceroy of North Syria during the mid-thirteenth century BC (resin cast). The tablet records a lawsuit involving two merchants, one of whom demands payment of a debt. The text is written in Akkadian (Babylonian), the international language of the Late Bronze Age in the Middle East. In the center of a tablet is a bold impression of the king's stamp seal bearing the figure of a Hittite god holding a winged sphinx, with the king's name in both the cuneiform and Hittite hieroglyphic scripts.