Kurzbeschreibung |
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Outline.2 is one of the best preserved outlines of the nuntarriyašḫa- festival, containing descriptions of more than fifteen days of the observance. It also represents what must have been one of the longest versions of the festival.
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Texte |
| Exemplar A | A₁ | KBo 39.63 | 34/t | HaH |
| + A₂ | + KBo 56.75 | + 847/u | HaH |
| + A₃ | + KUB 10.48 | + Bo 2647 | HaH * |
| + A₄ | + KBo 3.25 | + Bo 9381 | HaH * |
| + A₅ | | + Bo 9159 | HaH * | |
Inhaltsübersicht |
| Abschnitt 1ID=1 | Introduction |
| Abschnitt 2ID=2 | DAY 1: Great assembly in Katapa. |
| Abschnitt 3ID=3 | DAY 2: Festival of Zitḫariya. Holy ablution. |
| Abschnitt 4ID=4 | DAY 3: The king celebrates the Mighty Storm-god. Zitḫariya’s journey to Ḫakkura and Tatašuna. |
| Abschnitt 5ID=5 | DAY 4: The king travels to Taḫurpa. Woodpile-rite at the river in Ḫišurla. Great assembly in Taḫurpa. |
| Abschnitt 6ID=6 | DAY 5: The king travels to Arinna and performs the nuntarriyašḫa- festival. Celebrations including the new yield. In Taḫurpa, the queen celebrates the Sun-Goddess of Arinna and Mezzulla. |
| Abschnitt 7ID=7 | DAY 6: The royal couple return to Ḫattuša via Tatišga. The king celebrates all deities. Two great assemblies. |
| Abschnitt 8ID=8 | DAY 7: Celebrations in the temple of the Storm-god of Nerik. |
| Abschnitt 9ID=9 | DAY 8: The first day of the three-day festival of Ziparwa. Celebrations in the temple of the Storm-god and in the temple of Ḫannu. A ḫadauri- festival and the nuntarriyašḫa- festival for the Storm-god of Zippalanda and all deities in the House of the Major-domo. |
| Abschnitt 10ID=13 | DAY 12: The king travels to Ḫarranašši. The NIN.DINGIR priestess dances in the House of the Chariot Fighters. |
| Abschnitt 11ID=14 | DAY 13: The king travels to Zippalanda and celebrates the local Storm-god. |
| Abschnitt 12ID=15 | DAY 14: The king travels to Katapa and celebrates the Storm-god of Nerik. Great assembly. |
| Abschnitt 13ID=16 | DAY 15: The king travels to Taḫurpa. Great assembly. |
| Abschnitt 14ID=17 | DAY 16: The Day of the Road to Nerik. The king returns to Ḫattuša via Tippuwa. Woodpile-rite at the river in Nirḫanta. Great assembly. Festival of the Road to Nerik in the House of the Major-domo. |
| Abschnitt 15ID=42 | DAY 41: Celebrations in the temple of the Stag-god of the Field. |
| Abschnitt 16ID=43 | DAY (?) |
| Abschnitt 17ID=44 | DAY (?) |
| Abschnitt 18ID=45 | DAY (?) | |
History of publication |
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In Nakamura’s edition (Nakamura M. 2002a: 6 and 15–33), this text is designated as Ü 1.B (thus a duplicate of KUB 9.16+) and listed as comprising the fragments KBo 39.63 + IBoT 4.81 + KBo 3.25 + KUB 10.48. Shortly thereafter, KBo 56.75 (847/u), listed in Nakamura’s edition as Ü 1.D, was identified as a join to KBo 39.63+ (HPMM 3: 110). In the present edition, two further modifications have been introduced. First, Bo 9159 is treated as a direct join to KBo 56.75, adding to the preserved portion of col. i. Second, a recent palaeographic analysis (Kryszeń A. 2025a) has demonstrated that IBoT 4.81 shows handwriting distinct from the remaining fragments and must belong to a different tablet (see Outline.17 in the present edition).
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Tablet characteristics |
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More than half of col. i, and approximately half of col. ii are preserved. On the reverse, only the initial signs of a few lines of col. iv remain legible. Originally, Outline.2 must have been a two-column tablet with approx. 50 lines of text in each column.
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Palaeography and handwriting |
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Outline.2 is written in the New Script. The tablet displays a distinctive handwriting, with, e.g., the horizontals regularly crossing the verticals in signs like MA or KU; Ú with the lower horizontal frequently written beneath the verticals; and NA written with one Winkelhaken placed above and one below the horizontal.
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Text transmission |
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Outline.2 is – together with Outline.12 – one of the only outline tablets of the nuntarriyašḫa- festival discovered in the House on the Slope.
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General information |
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In the preserved portions of Outline.2, the day numbering corresponds to that of the ‘united’ version. Since the description of the 12th day is written at the top of col. ii, it follows that col. i included the short introduction and the account of the first eleven days of the festival, all written within roughly fifty lines.
The last preserved paragraphs in the lower half of col. iv must refer to the last days of the festival, as one must also allow space for the colophon at the end of the tablet.
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