Introductio CTH 573.28

The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

Digital Edition and Cultural Historical Analysis

Birgit Christiansen

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Citatio: Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 573.28 (INTR 2025-08-07)

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CTH 573.28

Bird oracles concerning ‘the road’, houses within a city, and an angry deity

introductio

Sections

■ Short description

■ Texts

■ Literature from the Konkordanz

■ History of publication

■ Palaeography and handwriting

■ Linguistic characteristics

■ Overview of contents

Short description

This fragment of bird oracle reports contains a few lines of both sides of a tablet. The oracles refer to various topics, inferred from the poorly preserved portions of the oracle questions. The name of the augur or augurs responsible is not preserved.

Texts

Manuscript A

KBo 43.60

361/n

Bk. D

Literature from the Konkordanz

Y. Sakuma, Diss., 2009: II 493-495

History of publication

Handcopy: H. Otten – Ch. Rüster (KBo 43, Otten H. – Rüster C. 2002a).

Edition: Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 493-495.

Palaeography and handwriting

NS (jh.); diagnostic signs: TAR. However, DA, IT with broken middle horizontal.

Linguistic characteristics

As in other bird oracles, some formulary sentences describing the movements of the birds omit the verb uwa- (e.g. kola 4´, 29´, and possibly others, not entirely preserved).

Overview of contents

Section 1ID=1	(obv. §1´) Fragmentary
Section 2ID=2	(obv. §2´) Oracle: ‘in this road …’
Section 3ID=3	(obv. §3´) Oracle: about ‘the enemy’
Section 4ID=4	(obv. §4´) Oracle: ‘the road …’
Section 5ID=5	(rev. §5´) Unclear
Section 6ID=6	(rev. §6´) Oracle: about houses of a town
Section 7ID=7	(rev. §7´) Oracle: a deity(?) is angry

Editio ultima: 2025-08-07