Short description |
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Outline.10 is perhaps the oldest surviving outline tablet of the nuntarriyašḫa- festival.
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Texts |
| Manuscript A | A₁ | KBo 52.114 | 1257/u | T.I |
| | | + 1282/u | T.I |
| | | + Bo 69/318 | T.I |
| | | + Bo 69/435 | T.I |
| + A₂ | | + Bo 7689 | T.I * | |
History of publication |
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KBo 52.114 was recognized as an outline tablet of the nuntarriyašḫa- festival by Corti C. 2007, who observed that the text is closely parallel to KUB 59.2+ (Outline.8 in the present edition). Bo 7689 had previously been suggested as a join to KUB 59.2+ (Groddek apud HPMM 1: 202 n. 3450).
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Tablet characteristics |
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Only portions of twenty-one lines of text are preserved: nine in obv. ii and twelve on rev. iii.
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Palaeography and handwriting |
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Outline.10 is written in the New Script but contains more pre-IIIa sign forms than any other outline of the nuntarriyašḫa- festival, while at the same time showing no IIIb variants. Note the older forms of KÙ, GI and URU, and the absence of the late forms of LI or MEŠ (Kryszeń A. 2025a: 137–140). It may therefore be tentatively assumed to be the oldest version of the festival.
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Text transmission |
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Most of the fragments of Outline.10 were found in Temple I. The find spot of Bo 7689, if correctly attributed, would be established through its join.
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Overview of contents |
| Section 1ID=16 | DAY 15: The king travels to Taḫurpa. Great assembly. |
| Section 2ID=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. |
| Section 3ID=29 | DAY 28: Shepherds celebrate the Queen of the Storehouse. The aḫišala- men celebrate Telipinu. |
| Section 4ID=30 | DAY 29: The king eats from a golden (vessel). Celebrations for Telipinu, Zitḫariya and Antaliya in the temple of NISABA. Offering animals are taken from the KI.LAM Festival. NIN.DINGIR priestess visits all temples. | |
