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Citatio: Adam Kryszeń (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 626.X (INTR 2025-12-22)


CTH 626.X

Festival of Haste (EZEN₄ nuntarriyašḫa-). Isolated fragments

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Short description

The group CTH 626-X includes texts and fragments that certainly, or most likely, belong to the corpus of the nuntarriyašḫa- festival but cannot be assigned to any specific day of the observance. These fall into several broad categories:

(a) longer compositions for which no correspondence can be established with the outline tablets (Version 1 and 11);

(b) small fragments, including colophons, that mention only the name of the festival (Versions 2–4 and 6–8);

(c) fragments referring to cities visited on multiple occasions during the festival. With little additional information available, these fragment could belong to multiple days of the festival (Versions 5, 9, and 10).

Each manuscript is presented as an individual version, but no relationship between the versions can be established. Consequently, the section count in the “Overview of contents” does not imply any chronological sequence of actions, with the exception of Versions 1 and 10.

Texts

Version CTH 626.X.1: Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). Isolated fragments (hrsg. von Adam Kryszeń)
Version CTH 626.X.2: Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). Isolated fragments (hrsg. von Adam Kryszeń)
Version CTH 626.X.3: Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). Isolated fragments (hrsg. von Adam Kryszeń)
Version CTH 626.X.4: Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). Isolated fragments (hrsg. von Adam Kryszeń)
Version CTH 626.X.5: Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). Isolated fragments (hrsg. von Adam Kryszeń)
Version CTH 626.X.6: Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). Isolated fragments (hrsg. von Adam Kryszeń)
Version CTH 626.X.7: Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). Isolated fragments (hrsg. von Adam Kryszeń)
Version CTH 626.X.8: Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). Isolated fragments (hrsg. von Adam Kryszeń)
Version CTH 626.X.9: Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). Isolated fragments (hrsg. von Adam Kryszeń)
Version CTH 626.X.10: Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). Isolated fragments (hrsg. von Adam Kryszeń)
Version CTH 626.X.11: Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). Isolated fragments (hrsg. von Adam Kryszeń)

History of publication

Several of the texts included in this group (Versions 2, 4, 7 and 11) have already been included by Nakamura in his chapter “Isolierte und sonstige Texte des nuntarriyašḫa- Festes” (Nakamura M. 2002a: 276–296). Additional fragments have been added to CTH 626 in the following years (see, e.g., Roszkowska-Mutschler H. 2005a).

Overview of contents

Section 1ID=1(CTH 626.X.1) The royal couple don the Ištanuwa garments and come out of the ḫalentu- complex(?).
Section 2ID=2(CTH 626.X.1) Actions involving a puppy and quite uttering of words (fragmentary).
Section 3ID=3(CTH 626.X.1) Actions involving the queen (fragmentary).
Section 4ID=4(CTH 626.X.1) (Fragmentary)
Section 5ID=6CTH 626.X.3 (KBo 42.54)
Section 6ID=7CTH 626.X.4 (VBoT 47)
Section 7ID=8CTH 626.X.5 (KBo 62.137)
Section 8ID=9CTH 626.X.8 (Bo 6818)
Section 9ID=10(CTH 626.X.9) Celebrations involving the king and the SANGA priests.
Section 10ID=11(CTH 626.X.10) (Fragmentary)
Section 11ID=12(CTH 626.X.10) Closing the ḫalentu- complex for the night.
Section 12ID=13(CTH 626.X.10) New day in Taḫurpa. Opening the ḫalentu- complex.
Section 13ID=14CTH 626.X.11 (KUB 55.52)
Editio ultima: 2025-12-22