The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

Digital Edition and Cultural Historical Analysis

Birgit Christiansen

Citatio: Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 573.50 (INTR 2025-08-08)


CTH 573.50

Bird oracle fragment

introductio



Short description

In this fragment with bird oracles, the fragmentary formulation at the beginning of the second paragraph (line 5´) suggests the latter is a control oracle, following a previous determination.

Texts

Manuscript AKBo 58.84484/zT.I

Literature from the Konkordanz

  • D. Groddek, DBH 39, 2012: 56

History of publication

Handcopy: J. Miller (KBo 58, Miller J.L. 2008a).

Edition: Sakuma Y. 2009b, II 533. Transliteration: Groddek D. 2012a, 56.

Palaeography and handwriting

Determined as LNS (sjh.) (HPM), probably due to the late form of DA. However, a palaeographic analysis remains difficult with fragments of this size. Cf. e.g. Groddek D. 2012a, 56: jh. (?).

Overview of contents

Section 1ID=1Oracle (continuation)
Section 2ID=2Control oracle
Editio ultima: 2025-08-08