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CTH 532.13 is a fragmentary Hittite tablet (KUB 8.29) containing remnants of lunar eclipse omens, written by Kuzi-Teššup, scribe of KBo 10.7+, who likely had a Hurrian background.
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This fragment of the scribe Kuzi-Teššup was copied by E. Weidner in KUB 8 and edited by Riemschneider K.K. 2004a: 96–97. The third line of the obverse preserves UD 22KAM, which could mean that the text followed the individual days of a month, as in CTH 532.3 and CTH 532.8. Judging from the Babylonian parallels BM 86381, BM 22696, and BM 109154, as well as from Emar 6.652, it seems possible that §1–3 are the omens for month six, day 21 and day 22–30 (note that also KBo 13.16 writes day 22–30 where the other witnesses have 21–30), as well as month seven, day one. The verb for the eclipse is puš-, ‘to diminish, fade, become dark’, and the introductory conjunction is takku, which differs from both CTH 532.3 and CTH 532.8. This would mean that if KUB 8.29 was, in fact, another manuscript of EAE 22, there were not two but three Hittite versions in Ḫattuša. The fragment is unfortunately too small to be certain until a join is found.
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