The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

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Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 581.9 (TRde 2025-08-01)


CTH 581.9

Letter(?) concerning oracles

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Abschnitt 1ID=1: §1´. obv.?

1ID=1 --

… […]

2ID=2 --

… […]

3ID=3 --

… […]

4ID=4 --

I/to me […]

5ID=5 --

in the road […]

6ID=6 --

… […]

7ID=7 --

… […]

8ID=8 --

… […]

obv. breaks off

Abschnitt 2ID=2: §2´. rev.?

9ID=9 --

… […]

10ID=10 --

Then […]

11ID=11 --

I/to me […]

12ID=12 --

You/to you […]

13ID=13 --

Let the exta be favorable. […]

14ID=14 --

… to the right […]

Abschnitt 3ID=3: §3´. rev.?

15ID=15 --

ḫarnai- liquid1 in this way […]

16ID=16 --

I pressed together/tied up2 […]

17ID=17 --

If … […]

18ID=18 --

any word […]

19ID=19 --

and His Majesty, my lord […]

20ID=20 --

the (oracular) signs determi[n-…]

21ID=21 --

and it/those to His Majesty […]

22ID=22 --

but I myself […]

23ID=23 --

this (on) the eleventh year […]

24ID=24 --

[…]

rev. breaks off

Abschnitt 4ID=4: §4´. left edge

25ID=25 --

[…] they took […].

26ID=26 --

A person […]

27ID=27 --

[…] … . Favorable. […]

breaks off

It is unclear what this substance is; it was employed frequently in birth rituals.
Also possibly transitive “I suffocated”. This 1sg. pret. form is not listed in Kloekhorst A. 2008a, 1013.
Editio ultima: Traductionis 2025-08-01

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