HFR Team

Citatio: Adam Kryszeń (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 626.0.6 (INTR 2025-12-11)


CTH 626.0.6

Outline.6 of the Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-)

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Short description

The new join between KBo 14.76 (Outline.6) and KBo 43.115 (Outline.9), identified in April 2025, requires adjustments to the analyses presented in Kryszeń A. 2025a and Kryszeń A. 2025b, where the two fragments are treated independently. The join, however, does not alter the overall interpretation of the festival proposed in those studies.

Outline.6 is – alongside Outline.1 – one of the two outline tablets in which the colophon is at least partly preserved.

Texts

Manuscript AA₁KBo 43.11571/eBk. A
+ A₂+ KBo 14.76+ 99/qBk. G

Literature from the Konkordanz

  • C. Corti, FsKošak, 2007: 166
  • M. Nakamura, Diss.Würzburg, 1993: 108-113
  • M. Nakamura, PIHANSt 94, 2002: 61-64
  • M. Nakamura, The Sanyo Review 3, 1996: 64

History of publication

In Nakamura’s edition (Nakamura M. 2002a: 6 and 60–64), KBo 14.76 is designated as Ü 4, while KBo 43.115 was recognized as an outline tablet of the nuntarriyašḫa- festival by Jürgen Lorenz on 2.10.2017 (entry in the Konkordanz). The join between the two fragments was confirmed during the research conducted at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara in April 2025.

Tablet characteristics

Preserved are the middle and lower portions of col. i on the obverse, and upper/middle parts of col. iii and iv on the reverse. Obv. i contains the descriptions of as many as fifteen days of the celebrations – three more than any other outline. By contrast, the available lines of col. iv preserve only the paragraph on the origin of the festival and the colophon, along with a large uninscribed area. This indicates that the main content of Outline.6, likely all paragraphs containing celebrations, was arranged in the first three columns.

Palaeography and handwriting

Outline.6 is written in the New Script.

Text transmission

Both fragments were discovered on Büyükkale, although in different areas: KBo 14.76 in Building G, whereas KBo 43.115 in Building A. It is unclear where the tablet was originally housed.

General information

The tablet presents a variant of events corresponding to DAY 8 of the ‘united’ version. Here, the usual order of actions – attested in Outline.1, Outline.2, Outline.4 or Outline.7 – is altered, and an additional episode is included, namely the king’s visit to the House of Ḫannu. Furthermore, the layout of Section 7 (DAY 30) is problematic, leaving an unusually large space between the initial lukkatti=ma and the subject of the sentence (DZulummaš), which is written in the following line.

Overview of contents

Section 1ID=7DAY 6: The royal couple return to Ḫattuša via Tatišga. The king celebrates all deities. Two great assemblies.
Section 2ID=8DAY 7: Celebrations in the temple of the Storm-god of Nerik.
Section 3ID=9DAY 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.
Section 4ID=10DAY 9: The second day of the three-day festival of Ziparwa. The nuntarriyašḫa- festival for Zitḫariya.
Section 5ID=11DAY 10: The third day of the three-day festival of Ziparwa.
Section 6ID=12DAY 11: The diviners(?) entreat the Sun-goddess of the Earth of the nuntarriyašḫa- festival.
Section 7ID=13DAY 12: The king travels to Ḫarranašši. The NIN.DINGIR priestess dances in the House of the Chariot Fighters.
Section 8ID=14DAY 13: The king travels to Zippalanda and celebrates the local Storm-god.
Section 9ID=15DAY 14: The king travels to Katapa and celebrates the Storm-god of Nerik. Great assembly.
Section 10ID=16DAY 15: The king travels to Taḫurpa. Great assembly.
Section 11ID=31DAY 30: Procession of Zulumma. Great assembly. Table attendants celebrate NISABA in her temple. Celebrations by the NIN.DINGIR priestess. The tawal- makers of Ḫattuša celebrate the Queen of the Storehouse.
Section 12ID=32DAY 31: Procession of Ḫalputili. Holy ablution. The grooms celebrate the Divine Throne.
Section 13ID=33DAY 32: The ‘unskilled’ (workers) celebrate the Divine Throne in the temple of the Storm-god of Aleppo.
Section 14ID=34DAY 33: Celebrations in the House of the Chariot Fighters. The queen celebrates a swine festival. In Arinna the ganzuwa- is burnt. The supervisor of the treasurers celebrates the Queen of the Storehouse.
Section 15ID=35DAY 34: Festival in the temple of Šuwaliyatt. Great assembly. The taḫzamaradu- festival in Arinna.
Section 16ID=48Origins of the nuntarriyašḫa- festival.
Editio ultima: 2025-12-11