The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

Digital Edition and Cultural Historical Analysis

Birgit Christiansen

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


CTH 532.7

Fragment of Akkadian (lunar?) eclipse omens

introductio



Short description

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

Texts

Manuscript AKBo 8.662/mBk.

Literature from the Konkordanz

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

Palaeography and handwriting

A: New Script or Middle Script: Not many signs are preserved. Since the text uses word space, we can assume that it was written in the standard Boğazköy style; Á has a central broken horizontal, TA has very tall verticals.

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 the remains of two apodoses: DIŠ]KUR i-ra-a[ḫ-ḫi-iṣ and KU]R-ti ṣ[e-eḫ-re-ti. The consistent syllabic writings an-ta-lu-ú and it-tab-ši point to an Old Babylonian original. The form it-tab-ši is often found in the solar eclipse omens of CTH 534.1, but the closest parallel for Akkadian eclipse protases occurring in consecutive lines is the lunar-omen tablet KUB 4.64+ (CTH 532.12).

Overview of contents

Section 1ID=7.1Fragments of Akkadian lunar eclipse omens
Editio ultima: 2024-07-02