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

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Short description

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

Texts

Manuscript AKBo 8.662/mBk.

Literature from the Konkordanz

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

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.

Overview of contents

Section 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.

Editio ultima: 2024-07-02