HFR Team

Citatio: Adam Kryszeń (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 626.Tg06.3 (INTR 2025-12-10)


CTH 626.Tg06.3

Festival of Haste (nuntarriyašḫa-). Day 6

introductio



Short description

Version 3 comprises a single manuscript, KUB 25.12. The text depicts the great assembly in the ḫalentu- complex and, insofar as it is preserved, corresponds closely to IBoT 4.54+ (ms. C of Version 2). However, the colophons of the two tablets differ: while IBoT 4.54+ is the third and final tablet of its series, KUB 25.12 is designated as the fifth tablet, though not the last, of its composition. This discrepancy is all the more intriguing, since the text ends (just like IBoT 4.54+) with the conclusion of the great assembly and the note that the subsequent events in the temple of the Storm-god are recorded on a separate tablet (ḫanti TUP-PU). What, then, was written on the sixth tablet of this series remains unclear.

Texts

Manuscript AKUB 25.12VAT 13018Ḫattuša

Literature from the Konkordanz

  • M. Nakamura, PIHANSt 94, 2002: 213; 241ff.

History of publication

The text was edited by Nakamura M. 2002a: 241–247, who also tentatively included three other fragments in this version: IBoT 2.11 (reassigned to Version 2 in the present edition), KBo 14.32 and IBoT 2.89. Since the latter fragments duplicate formulaic passages found in multiple festivals, they have been excluded from the present edition.

Tablet characteristics

KUB 25.12 was originally a three-columned tablet.

Palaeography and handwriting

The text shows the typical features of the New Script, although note the older forms of LI and possibly URU.

Overview of contents

Section 1ID=20Great assembly in the ḫalentu- complex: distributing sheep meat and taparwašu- bread.
Section 2ID=40Great assembly in the ḫalentu- complex: drinking rite for three deities(?)
Section 3ID=41Great assembly in the ḫalentu- complex: drinking rite for Zizzaššun and Zuliya.
Section 4ID=43Great assembly in the ḫalentu- complex concludes.
Section 5ID=44The royal couple leaves the ḫalentu- complex and goes to the temple of the Storm-god.
Editio ultima: 2025-12-10