The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

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Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 573.26 (transcr. 2024-05-28; TRde 2024-10-30)


CTH 573.26

Bird oracle fragment

transcriptio



Abschnitt 1ID=1: Obverse

1ID=1 --

[… …]… …[… …]

[…]

2ID=2 --

[… …]‑ma=aš=kan a[n‑… …]

[…] however, […] him/her […]

3ID=3 --

[… a]ndahinein-:PREV naiški‑[… …]

[…] turn in favor1 […]

4ID=4 --

[… …] uērkommen:3PL.PST

[… birds] came […],

5ID=5 --

nuCONNn nammanoch:ADV ta[r‑… …]

and then […] tar[(uya)li- …]

6ID=6 --

[… u]ērkommen:3PL.PST

[Two … birds c]ame […].

7ID=7 --

nuCONNn 1‑ašein:QUANcar.NOM.SG.C 2‑anin der Mitte (Abk. für takšan):PREV arḫ[aweg-:PREV pait]gehen:3SG.PST

One [flew a]way in the middle.

8ID=8 --

[…]

[the other …].

9ID=9 --

[p]attarpalḫiš=ma=kan(Greifvogel):NOM.SG.C=CNJctr=OBPk pea[nvor:ADV(ABBR) …]

A ‘wide-wing’ bird, however, [came] in fro[nt from …]

10ID=10 --

[… …‑i]t

[… it cam]e/flew […].

11ID=11 --

ḫūwaš(Orakelvogel):NOM.SG.C GUN‑liš(Orakelterminus):NOM.SG.C(ABBR) […]

A ḫūwa- bird (was) GUN-li- […]

end of obv.

Abschnitt 2ID=2: Reverse

three blank lines with traces of erased signs

12ID=12 --

[… …‑a]n kišanin dieser Weise:DEMadv …[… …]

[…] … as follows […]

13ID=13 --

[… …‑a]nzi […]

[…] they … […]

14ID=14 --

[…] Ú‑U[Lnicht:NEG …]

[…] not … […]

rev. breaks off

Possible meaning of anda nai- (CHD L-N, §3c, 357); see e.g. KUB 32.130 rev. 27-28.
Editio ultima: Textus 2024-05-28; Traductionis 2024-10-30

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