Fragment of tablet, probably one-columned, preserving fragmentary lines of the beginning of the obverse and the end of the text (reverse and two lines written on the tablet’s edge). The presence of personal names is of some interest, as these appear in other sources; notably, Mašḫuiluwa and Zapartinani appear together in the oracle text KUB 5.6+ (for discussion, see Hout Th.P.J. van den 1998c, 77-78). The latter is not attested elsewhere; in this text (rev. 4´), this name is fragmentary, but the restoration seems likely, following the proposal by Heinhold-Krahmer S. 1977a, 198 n. 289.

• Th. van den Hout, DMOA 25, 1998: 77 mit Anm. 16

Handcopy: H.G. Güterbock (KBo 18, Güterbock H.G. 1971a).

Transliteration (reverse): Gander M. 2022a, 539-540.

NS (jh.); diagnostic signs: AḪ(?), IK, LI.

Mašḫuiluwa was king of Mira-Kuwaliya at the time of Mursili II, of which he was vassal and brother-in-law, having taken in marriage Mursili’s sister, the Hittite princess Muwatti. After a failed rebellion against the Hittite king he tried to flee but was captured and finally cast into exile. For a brief discussion on this figure and previous literature, see Heinhold-Krahmer S. 1989, 446-447 (in RlA 7).

Mašḫuiluwa appears in a couple of other oracular texts besides this fragment, KUB 5.6+ (III 9ff.) and the fragment KUB 22.22 (1´, 6´). In the first document, Mašḫuiluwa is mentioned in reference to curses uttered before the Zawalli god “of the House of His Majesty”, which caused a ‘bewitchment’ of the king and the deity. For a discussion on Mašḫuiluwa, with additional references, see Hout Th.P.J. van den 1998c, 78 and the edition of KUB 5.6+.