Transcriptio CTH 581.3

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Citatio: Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 581.3 (transcr. 2023-09-28; TRde 2025-08-01)

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CTH 581.3

Oracle summary concerning the demise of the house of Arma-Tarḫunta

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Abschnitt 1ID=1: §1´.
1ID=1	--	[… …]…	[…]
2ID=2	--	[… …]… SUD‑anziziehen:3PL.PRS	[…] they pull
3ID=3	--	[…]	[…]
4ID=4	--	[…] šarnikzel=maKompensation:NOM.SG.C=CNJctr; Kompensation:ACC.SG.C=CNJctr [… …]… …	but compensation […]
5ID=5	--	nu=z(a)CONNn=REFL GIM‑anwie:CNJ DUTU‑ŠI‚meine Sonne‘:NOM.SG(UNM)_PPRO.1SG.GEN SISKURMEŠOpfer:ACC.PL(UNM) DÙ‑zimachen:3SG.PRS	When His Majesty will perform the rituals,
6ID=6	--	nu=z(a)CONNn=REFL apēdanier:DEM2/3.D/L.SG EGIR‑pawieder:PREV tiyauwaštreten:VBN.GEN.SG; setzen:VBN.GEN.SG INIM‑niWort:D/L.SG.C arkuwarbitten:VBN.ACC.SG.N DÙ‑zimachen:3SG.PRS	and during that ‘word of re-entering’1 he will make a prayer,
7ID=7	--	šarnikzelKompensation:ACC.SG.N I‑NA KURLand:D/L.SG URUGAM‑TIGAM-TI:GN.D/L.SG(UNM) parāaus-:PREV pāigeben:3SG.PRS	will he (also) hand out compensation in the Lower Land2?
8ID=8	--	SI×SÁ‑atordnen:3SG.PST.MP	It was confirmed.
Abschnitt 2ID=2: §2´
9ID=9	--	ŠA ÉHaus:GEN.SG m.D30‑D10=maArmatarḫunta:PNm.GEN.SG(UNM)=CNJctr kuitweil:CNJ ÚŠSterben:NOM.SG(UNM) SI×SÁ‑atordnen:3SG.PST.MP	Because the demise of the house of Arma-Tarḫunta was confirmed (by oracle),
10ID=10	--	nuCONNn ariērorakeln:3PL.PST	they inquired (further) through oracle.
11ID=11	--	nuCONNn ŠA EL‑LU‑TIrein:GEN.PL SI×SÁ‑atordnen:3SG.PST.MP	(The matter) of the free men was confirmed:
12ID=12	--	ŠA DUMU.MUNUSTochter:GEN.SG mAMAR.MUŠEN‑naAMAR.MUŠEN-na-:PNm.GEN.SG(UNM)	of the daughter of AMAR.MUŠEN-na
13ID=13	--	AMA?Mutter:NOM.SG(UNM) mAMAR.MUŠEN‑naAMAR.MUŠEN-na-:PNm.GEN.SG(UNM)	(and) the mother of AMAR.MUŠEN-na,
14ID=14	--	EL‑LU‑TI=yarein:NOM.PL(UNM)=CNJadd kuiēšwelcher:REL.NOM.PL.C nammanoch:ADV ŠA ÉHaus:GEN.SG m.D30‑D10Armatarḫunta:PNm.GEN.SG(UNM)	and then (those) who are (other) free men of the house of Arma-Tarḫunta,
15ID=15	--	ŠA ARADDiener:GEN.PL GÉMEMagd:GEN.PL(UNM)	(and) of the male and female servant(s);
16ID=16	--	𒀹arraḫḫaniyašFluch:HITT.GEN.SG 𒀹tiwataniyašVerfluchung:GEN.SG.C	- Perjurers and slanderers3 -
17ID=17	--	UNMEŠ‑tarr=a=kanMenschheit:ACC.SG.N=CNJadd=OBPk kuitwelcher:REL.ACC.SG.N marrihastig:ADV kuennešker; schlagen:3PL.PST	(these are) the people whom4 they murdered one by one without hesitation.5
18ID=18	--	[ ]…‑ušker=ma=aš ammelich:PPROa.1SG.GEN meminiWort:D/L.SG.C šeroben:ADV	[…] they kept (doing) […] because of my message.
19ID=19	--	IŠ‑TUaus:ABL LÚ?[… …]	Through the [diviner …].
20ID=20	--	[…] zilašEntscheidung:NOM.SG.C NU.SIG₅ungünstig:3SG.PRS	The (oracular) response is unfavorable.
21ID=21	--	[… …]… NÍ.TEKörper:NOM.SG(UNM) DUTU‑ŠI‚meine Sonne‘:GEN.SG(UNM)_PPRO.1SG.GEN ŠAdes/der:GEN.SG marri (?)[…hastig:ADV …]	[…] the body (of) His Majesty, … [
Abschnitt 3ID=3: §3´
22ID=22	--	[… …]… zilašEntscheidung:NOM.SG.C SIG₅gut:NOM.SG(UNM)	[…] the oracular sign (is) favorable.
23ID=23	--	[… …]MEŠ ḫūmantešjeder; ganz:QUANall.NOM.PL.C; jeder; ganz:QUANall.ACC.PL.C […] blank line	[…] all (of them) […].
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The passage must refer to a certain rite or procedure celebrated during the rituals (such as a rite of ‘re-installation’?). For the formulation appa tiyawaš, which has no exact parallels, see the colophon of Muwatalli’s prayer for the Storm god of Kummani (KBo 1.11): DUB 1KAM ŠA D10 ar-ku-wa-ar ti-ya-u-wa-aš “First tablet, of the presentation of the plea to the Storm god”.

Tentative. For the equivalency between KUR URUGAM-TI and KUR šaplīti ‘Lower Land’, see also A. Kryszeń (hethiter.net/: HiTop). With pai one expects ANA (‘for’) here, rather than INA; possibly, the rites are to be carried out in the Lower Land.

Lit. ‘of perjury’, ‘of curse’: quasi a merism, arraḫḫaniya- ‘ranting, slandering, cursing’; tiwataniya- ‘swearing, cursing’. Syntactically, these two terms are unlikely dependent from UNMEŠ-tar, whose attached enclitics introduce a new sentence. Due to the word order, it is equally unlikely that the head noun(s) of these genitives are the “male and female servants”, or any of the previous listed people. As reflected in the present translation, tentatively, we understand them as free-standing genitives (Hoffner H.A. – Melchert H.C. 2024a, 334-335) with the function of subject, probably referring to the people responsible of murder, and implicit subject of the following sentence. However, we cannot exclude that these “perjurers and slenderers” are to be included in the preceding list of people, “(the matter of …) (and of) the perjurers and slanderers”.

Tentative. The passage is difficult, and kuit might also be interpreted as a conjunction: “because (these) people (obj.), they (sbj.) murdered one by one”. Either way, the subject of kuennešker (“they killed”) is not expressed, while the victims are presumably the “free men”, members of the house of Arma-Tarḫunta and the relatives of AMAR.MUŠEN-na. The subject cannot be UNMEŠ in any case, a neuter singular.

Lit. ‘swiftly’, also ‘hastily’, ‘rashly’.

Editio ultima: Textus 2023-09-28; Traductionis 2025-08-01