Transcriptio CTH 573.16

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Citatio: Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 573.16 (transcr. 2024-07-10; TRde 2024-08-06)

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CTH 573.16

Bird oraclesby Piyammu concerning Šaušgatti, with incomplete reports

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Abschnitte

1(obv.) Fragmentary. Blank section after PAB.

2Fragmentary oracular question with blank section after PAB.

3Bird oracle of Piyammu concerning Šaušgatti

4Bird oracle concerning ‘the man of Šaušgatti’

5(rev.) Fragmentary

6Bird oracle about ‘turning up [of the mantel’]. Blank section after PAB.

7Fragmentary

Abschnitt 1ID=1: (obv.) Fragmentary. Blank section after PAB.
1ID=1	--	[… …]	[…]
2ID=2	--	𒉽(PAB, scribal mark)	𒉽
3ID=3	--	[…] blank	[…]
4ID=4	--	[…] …	[…]
Abschnitt 2ID=2: Fragmentary oracular question with blank section after PAB.
5ID=5	--	[…] blank	[…]
6ID=6	--	[… SI]G₅‑zavon der guten Seite:HITT.ABL uērkommen:3PL.PST	[… birds] came from the [fav]orable side
7ID=7	--	n=at=kanCONNn=PPRO.3PL.C.NOM=OBPk peanvor:ADV(ABBR) arḫaweg-:PREV pāergehen:3PL.PST	and they flew away in front.
8ID=8	--	[… SI×S]Á‑atordnen:3SG.PST	[…] it was confirmed.1
9ID=9	--	𒉽(PAB, scribal mark)	𒉽
10ID=10	--	[… …]…	[ ]
Abschnitt 3ID=3: Bird oracle of Piyammu concerning Šaušgatti
11ID=11	--	[… f].DIŠTAR‑attiŠauškatti:PPNf.NOM.SG(UNM) kuitweil:CNJ SI×SÁ‑atordnen:3SG.PST	[Concerning the fact] that […] Šaušgatti […], (it) was confirmed (by oracle):
12ID=12	--	enijener:DEM3.ACC.SG.N [k]uitwelcher:REL.ACC.SG.N memiersprechen:3PL.PST	Concerning what they have said:
13ID=13	--	kuit‑…[… …]	… […]
14ID=14	--	[… DING]IR‑LUMGott:NOM.SG(UNM); Gott:ACC.SG(UNM); Gott:GEN.SG(UNM); Gott:D/L.SG(UNM); Gott:ABL(UNM); Gott:VOC.SG(UNM) … aššugut:NOM.SG.N; gut:ACC.SG.N Ú‑ULnicht:NEG … šeroben:ADV ipaddan‑… …]	[…] the deity not … good … about …
15ID=15	--	…	[Let the birds confirm/exclude it.]
16ID=16	--	[marš]anaššiuš(Orakelvogel):HITT.ADJG.ACC.PL.C GUN‑lian(Orakelterminus):ADV NI‑MURsehen:1PL.PST	We saw […] maršanašši- birds GUN-lian.
17ID=17	--	n=at=kanCONNn=PPRO.3PL.C.NOM=OBPk peanvor:ADV(ABBR) kušvom/im ungünstigen (Bereich):ABL(ABBR) uērkommen:3PL.PST	and they came in front from the unfavorable side.
18ID=18	--	[…]	[They turned back]2
19ID=19	--	[n]=at=kanCONNn=PPRO.3PL.C.NOM=OBPk peanvor:ADV(ABBR) SIG₅‑zavon der guten Seite:HITT.ABL uērkommen:3PL.PST	and they came in front from the favorable side.
20ID=20	--	n=atCONNn=PPRO.3PL.C.NOM 2‑anin der Mitte (Abk. für takšan):PREV arḫaweg-:PREV pāergehen:3PL.PST	(Then) they flew away in the middle.
21ID=21	--	[… NI‑M]URsehen:1PL.PST	We s[aw a … bird …],
22ID=22	--	n=ašCONNn=PPRO.3SG.C.NOM panvon jener Seite:ADV(ABBR) tarliš(Orakelterminus):NOM.SG.C(ABBR) paitgehen:3SG.PST	it flew diagonally tar(uya)li-
23ID=23	--	n=aš=z(a)CONNn=PPRO.3SG.C.NOM=REFL TUŠ‑atsitzen:3SG.PST	and it perched.
24ID=24	--	KA×U‑ŠÚ=ma=z(a)=kanMund:ACC.SG(UNM)_DEM2/3.GEN.SG=CNJctr=REFL=OBPk […]	It [turned] its beak […]
25ID=25	--	[… GU]N‑an(Orakelterminus):ADV NI‑MURsehen:1PL.PST	We saw [a … bird] GUN-(li)an
26ID=26	--	n=aš=kanCONNn=PPRO.3SG.C.NOM=OBPk [EGIR]wieder:ADV UGUhinauf:ADV SIG₅‑zavon der guten Seite:HITT.ABL uetkommen:3SG.PST	and it came [in the back] up from the favorable side
27ID=27	--	[…]	[and it flew …]
28ID=28	--	[E]GIRhinter:POSP KASKAL‑NIWeg:D/L.SG(UNM)	Behind the road:
29ID=29	--	2zwei:QUANcar TI₈MUŠENAdler:NOM.PL(UNM) GUN‑an(Orakelterminus):ADV NI‑MURsehen:1PL.PST	we saw two eagles GUN-(li)an,
30ID=30	--	n=at=kanCONNn=PPRO.3PL.C.NOM=OBPk EGIRwieder:ADV UGUhinauf:ADV SIG₅‑zavon der guten Seite:HITT.ABL uērkommen:3PL.PST	they came in the back up from the favorable side.
31ID=31	--	[… p]āergehen:3PL.PST	[…] they flew (away) […].
32ID=32	--	UM‑MAfolgendermaßen:ADV mpiyammuPiyam(m)u:PNm.NOM.SG(UNM)	Thus (says) Piyammu:
33ID=33	--	SI×SÁ‑at=waordnen:3SG.PST=QUOT	“it was confirmed”.
Abschnitt 4ID=4: Bird oracle concerning ‘the man of Šaušgatti’
34ID=34	--	[…] ŠA f.DIŠTAR‑a[tt]iŠauškatti:GEN.SG U[N‑a]nMensch:ACC.SG.C weriyanzirufen:3PL.PRS	[…] they call the man of Šaušgatti
35ID=35	--	[… a]rḫaweg-:PREV aniyanziwirken:3PL.PRS	[…] they complete […].
36ID=36	--	[m]ašiyantaš=kanwie oft auch immer(?):GEN.SG=OBPk MUḪI.A‑ašJahr:GEN.SG [… t]ariyanuwanzaanrufen:PTCP.NOM.SG.C ēštasein:3SG.PST	As much as the (number of) years (in which) [the deity] had [not] been called upon3
37ID=37	--	nuCONNn apēneššuwan(eben) solch:ACC.SG.N [… …]… zanki[l]atarBestrafung:ACC.SG.N pi[a]nzigeben:3PL.PRS	they will give just as much […] compensation.
38ID=38	--	EGIR‑anda=ma=ašdanach:ADV=CNJctr=PPRO.3SG.C.NOM A‑NA LUGALKönig:D/L.SG [… …]…	Afterwards, however, for the king […]
39ID=39	--	nuCONNn MUŠENḪI.AVogel:NOM.PL(UNM) SI×SÁ‑anduordnen:3PL.IMP	Let the birds confirm it.
40ID=40	--	[… …]…	[… birds …],
41ID=41	--	n=at=kan(?)CONNn=PPRO.3PL.C.NOM=OBPk […]	and they […]
obv. breaks off
Abschnitt 5ID=5: (rev.) Fragmentary
42ID=42	--	[…]	[…]
43ID=43	--	[… …]…	[…]
44ID=44	--	[…]	[…]
45ID=45	--	[…] blank line	[…]
Abschnitt 6ID=6: Bird oracle about ‘turning up [of the mantel’]. Blank section after PAB.
46ID=46	--	[… …]…	[…]
47ID=47	--	EGIR.KASKAL‑NI(auf dem) Rückweg:D/L.SG(UNM) […]	Behind the road: […]
48ID=48	--	[… …]… RA AZ [… …]…	[…] …
49ID=49	--	[… …‑aš MUŠENḪI.[AVogel:NOM.PL(UNM) …]	[…] the birds […]
50ID=50	--	[…] I‑NA EGIR=kanhinter:D/L.SG=OBPk ŠÀInneres:D/L.SG(UNM); Herz:D/L.SG(UNM) É‑[… … …]‑ni	[…] in the back (of) the center of the house […]
51ID=51	--	[… …]… PA‑NI DINGIRMEŠGöttlichkeit:D/L.PL_vor:POSP kīdieser:DEM1.ACC.SG.N memiškemisprechen:1SG.PRS.IMPF	[…] before the gods I will keep reciting this:
52ID=52	--	[… …]‑wa šeknušUmhang:ACC.SG.N; Umhang:STF pippūwarniederschlagen:VBN.NOM.SG.N; niederschlagen:VBN.ACC.SG.N aša=š[i(?)]Schmach(?):NOM.PL.N=PPRO.3SG.D/L; Schmach(?):NOM.PL.N=POSS.3SG.D/L.SG; Schmach(?):ACC.PL.N=PPRO.3SG.D/L; Schmach(?):ACC.PL.N=POSS.3SG.D/L.SG; Schmach(?):STF=PPRO.3SG.D/L; Schmach(?):STF=POSS.3SG.D/L.SG	[…] “a ‘turning (up)’ of the mantel, a disgrace for him/her”4
53ID=53	--	[… …‑k]an DINGIRMEŠGöttlichkeit:NOM.PL(UNM); Göttlichkeit:ACC.PL(UNM); Göttlichkeit:GEN.PL(UNM); Göttlichkeit:D/L.PL(UNM); Göttlichkeit:ABL(UNM) EGIR‑pawieder:ADV andahinein-:PREV lēnicht!:NEG [… …]‑ni …	[…] behind the gods […] not […]
54ID=54	--	[MUŠEN]ḪI.A(?)Vogel:NOM.PL(UNM) SI×SÁ‑anduordnen:3PL.IMP	Let the [bird]s confirm it.
55ID=55	--	𒉽(PAB, scribal mark) five blank lines	𒉽
Abschnitt 7ID=7: Fragmentary
56ID=56	--	[… …]…‑it … …‑un	[…] …
57ID=57	--	GAM‑an=maunten:ADV=CNJctr ān‑[… … …]…	but below […]
58ID=58	--	šekkantaš=mawissen:PTCP.GEN.SG=CNJctr … …[… …]	but […] of knowing … […]
59ID=59	--	[… …]‑me Ù?und:CNJadd A‑NAzu:D/L.SG kapueš… … two blank lines	[…] and to […]
60ID=60	--	[… …]… … …[… …]	[…] … […]
rev. breaks off

According to Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 464, this is the oracular response (Thus (says) …: it was confirmed), but the formula is not standard, lacking the =wa(r) particle. For a more detailed discussion on this passage, see Introductio.

Following Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 464, based on the content of the next line.

From te-/tar- ‘to call’, or perhaps tarai-/tari- ‘to exert oneself, to become tired’? Note that Kloekhorst A. 2008a, 840-841, lists another verb, dāriye/a-, sometimes understood as ‘to call upon the gods’, but which in his view is not connected with either of them; its meaning is uncertain, but in several contexts, it “seems to denote an action performed on an ill person in order to heal him”. For the present translation see similarly Hout Th.P.J. van den 1998c, 39: “they will give as much compensation as the number of years [the festival? was left unc]elebrated”.

Compare the passage in KUB 26.1 IV 46-48, discussed in CHD P, 271. For the negative meaning of the expression ‘to turn up the mantel’ in Hittite, see CHD Š, 362 j; Melchert H.C. 1983b.

Editio ultima: Textus 2024-07-10; Traductionis 2024-08-06