This small fragment with few fragmentary lines of text refers to an oracular determination in line 8´; however, there is no epistolary content, thus the text is not necessarily a letter (see CTH 581). KUB 39 (Otten H. 1963d, v) listed it under “Beschwörungen”.

Two names found in the text, a town, Širuliya, and a woman, Aššuiwašḫa, are not attested elsewhere. The text mentions an ‘(offering) rite’ (SÍSKUR) of Aššuiwašḫa (line 7´); it is unclear whether this woman is the person dedicating it or she is the object of the dedication (as a funerary offering after her death? See the content of line 6´).

After the reference to this rite, another section of the fragment discusses an illness in Ḫattuša, and in this context offering rites are also mentioned (possibly for ‘those fallen ill’, according to our tentative reading of line 12´). Interesting in this passage is the reference to the king, who, apparently, enters inside ‘the houses’ (line 13´). Is he visiting the sick in Ḫattuša, those stricken by disease in the context of healing rites, or are the rites for those who succumbed to it?

Handcopy: H. Otten (KUB 39, Otten H. 1963d).

NS (jh.); however, old LI.