The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

Digital Edition and Cultural Historical Analysis

Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 532.1 (INTR 2024-07-02)


CTH 532.1

Fragments of Hittite lunar eclipse omens during the night watches

introductio



Kurzbeschreibung

CTH 532.1 only consists of the fragment KUB 34.9, the remnant of a tablet with Hittite lunar eclipse omens during specific times of the night. The verb used for the eclipse is puš-, like in CTH 532.5 and CTH 532.8.

Texte

Exemplar AKUB 34.9290/bBk. A

Inhaltsübersicht

Abschnitt 1ID=1.1Eclipses during different stages of the night

History of Publication

The tablet was copied by H. Ehelolf in KUB 34. An edition is offered by Riemschneider K.K. 2004a: 116-117.

Paleography and Handwriting

A: New Script/IIIb: The text has DA without broken central horizontal.

General information

Only fragments of two omens survive, one after half of the night and one when the ‘night begins to end’, followed by a double paragraph line. It is likely that an omen for the first night watch preceded the two, and such triplets of eclipses during the beginning, middle, and end of the night appear in the second millennium introductory sections of EAE 22, e. g. in the Old Babylonian tablets BM 22696 and BM 86381 and the Middle Babylonian tablet from Alalakh AlT 452. Note, however, that the first omen in CTH 532.1, during the middle of the night, has the same apodosis as the first entry in those second millennium texts outside of Ḫattuša. Such triplets also occur at the beginning of each monthly section in the first millennium version of EAE 17-18 and in one first millennium witness of EAE 16 (Rochberg-Halton F. 1988a: 97-98), but in CTH 532.1 we lack a month name. The fragments thus also relates to 532.8C and CTH 532.12, although we cannot establish any clear connection.

Editio ultima: 2024-07-02