The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

Digital Edition and Cultural Historical Analysis

Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 536.7 (INTR 2025-05-13)


CTH 536.7

Hittite fragment with omens concerning body parts

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Kurzbeschreibung

CTH 536.7 is a short Hittite fragment with omens about paired body parts, perhaps belonging to CTH 536.4.

Texte

Exemplar AA₂IBoT 2.132Bo 2116Ḫattuša
+ A₁+ KUB 43.15+ Bo 6420Ḫattuša

Literaturauszug aus der Konkordanz

  • K.K. Riemschneider, DBH 12, 2004: 154f.

Inhaltsübersicht

Abschnitt 1ID=4.7Fragmentary omens about a man’s cheeks

History of publication

The two pieces of the fragment were copied by H. Bozkurt in IBoT 2 and by K.K. Riemschneider in KUB 43, who also noted the join (KUB 43, V). The first edition is Riemschneider K.K. 2004a: 154–155.

General information

The two small, joining pieces in New or late Middle Script from a right column likely contained omens about a man’s left and right paršena-/paršna-, ‘cheeks, buttocks’, or ‘loins’. Like CTH 536.1/KBo 34.132, this fragment was not moved to CTH 543 because of its similarity to the morphoscopic section in CTH 536.4 and because of the lack of clear-cut separation of these genres before the first millennium. When comparing what is left of the sign shapes, the paragraph lines, and the angle of wedges compared to the lines on the photographs, none of the three manuscripts of CTH 536.4 really seems to fit as an indirect join. However, an indirect join with CTH 536.1/KBo 34.132 seems possible.

Editio ultima: 2025-05-13