Short description |
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IBoT 2.16+ is the only text that can tentatively be identified as describing DAY 1 of the nuntarriyašḫa- festival. The attribution of this text rests on the assumption that the god-drinking rite is a part of a great assembly and that the toponym in the colophon can be restored as Katapa.
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Texts |
| Manuscript A | A₁ | IBoT 2.16 | Bo 1104 | Ḫattuša |
| + A₂ | + CHDS 4.110 | + Bo 6227 | Ḫattuša | |
History of publication |
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The restoration of the city name Katapa in the colophon of IBoT 2.16 was first proposed in Güterbock’s pioneer study on the AN.DAḪ.ŠUM festival (Güterbock H.G. 1960b: 88). Since then, the text was attributed to this festival, although Güterbock himself made no such claim. The fact that IBoT 2.16+ does not seem to align with the course of the AN.DAḪ.ŠUM festival was noted by Nakamura M. 2002a: 82f. (see also Kryszeń A. 2020a: 314). After a short analysis of this text, however, Nakamura (ibid.) refrained from including it into his edition of the nuntarriyašḫa- festival.
The join with CHDS 4.110 was identified by Oğuz Soysal (see the entry in the Konkordanz).
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Tablet characteristics |
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The join revealed that the width of the last column text is approx. 6 cm., which suggests that the tablet was originally three-columned. Preserved are the lower portion of obv. i , and the upper portions of rev. iii and iv.
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Palaeography and handwriting |
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The fragment has been identified as written in the Late New Script, but apart from DA with an unbroken horizontal and given the limited data set, there seems to be no clear evidence for a such a late dating.
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General information |
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The only understandable part of the fragment is a standard god-drinking rite for the Stag-god, which is described in the last paragraph before the colophon. Since that would be an odd way to end the composition, it is highly likely that the tablet is not the last one in the series.
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