The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

Digital Edition and Cultural Historical Analysis

Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 532.7 (INTR 2024-07-02)


CTH 532.7

Fragment of Akkadian lunar eclipse omens

introductio



Kurzbeschreibung

CTH 532.7 is a fragment of an Akkadian tablet with lunar eclipse omens (KBo 8.6).

Texte

Exemplar AKBo 8.662/mBk.

Literaturauszug aus der Konkordanz

  • K.K. Riemschneider, DBH 12, 2004: 16

Inhaltsübersicht

Abschnitt 1ID=7.1Fragments of Akkadian lunar eclipse omens

Paleography and Handwriting

A: New Script or Middle Script: Not many sings are preserved. Since the text uses word space, we can assume that it was written in the standard Boghazköy-style. ID has a central broken horizontal, TA has very high verticals typical for older tablets, but also tablets of the Assyro-Mittanian type.

General information

The tablet was copied by H. Otten in KBo 8. A partial edition is offered by Riemschneider K.K. 2004a: 16 (1′.4′.10′). Only the words antallû, ‘eclipse’ and the beginning of a verb form, likely ittabši, ‘it happens’, are preserved, as well as remnants of two Apodoses: DIŠ]KUR i-ra-a[ḫ-ḫi-iṣ and KU]R-ti ṣ[e-eḫ-ḫe-er/ru. The consistent syllabic writings an-ta-lu-ú and it-tab-ši point to an Old Babylonian original, it-tab-ši is often found in the solar eclipse omens of CTH 534.1, but the closest parallel of Akkadian eclipse protases following each other in consecutive lines is CTH 532.12.

Editio ultima: 2024-07-02