The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

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Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 573.34 (TRde 2024-11-12)


CTH 573.34

Bird oracle fragment with a reference to spoils and enemies

translatio



Abschnitt 1ID=1: §1´

1ID=1 --

[A … bird … GUN-/tar(uya)]li-

2ID=2 --

[…] the spoil(s) […]

3ID=3 --

[A … bird …] tar(uya)li-.

4ID=4 --

A ‘wi[de-wing’ bird …]

5ID=5 --

[A … bird …] GUN-li-.

6ID=6 --

The enemy […]

7ID=7 --

[A … bird …]…1 tar(uya)li- [came] 〈in the back〉 up [from the favorable side].2

8ID=8 --

[…] may he keep ask[ing …]

9ID=9 --

[… he will be pow]erful

10ID=10 --

… […]

11ID=11 --

[…] … […]

12ID=12 --

[…] … […]

13ID=13 --

[…] … […]

Abschnitt 2ID=2: §2´

14ID=14 --

[…] …

15ID=15 --

and it […]

16ID=16 --

[…] he will be powerful,

17ID=17 --

from the spoils […]

18ID=18 --

[…] … GUN-li […]

19ID=19 --

[…] … […]

20ID=20 --

[…] … […]

21ID=21 --

[…] … […]

22ID=22 --

[…] … […]

The tablet shows two vertical wedges before -uš, and no known bird names are compatible.
Tentative. The sentence is unusual, as the standard formula would be 〈EGIR〉 UGU SIG₅-za.
Editio ultima: Traductionis 2024-11-12

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