The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

Digital Edition and Cultural Historical Analysis

Birgit Christiansen

Citatio: Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 532.9 (INTR 2024-07-02)


CTH 532.9

Fragment of Hittite lunar eclipse omens

introductio



Short description

CTH 532.9 is a fragment of a Hittite tablet with lunar eclipse omens (KBo 34.117). The text uses the verb ak- ‘to die’ for the eclipse.

Texts

Manuscript AKBo 34.1171994/uBk.

Literature from the Konkordanz

  • K.K. Riemschneider, DBH 12, 2004: 172f.

Palaeography and handwriting

New Script?: No good diagnostic signs are preserved; DA has a broken central horizontal, TA has small verticals.

General information

The tablet was copied by K.K. Riemschneider in KBo 34. An edition is offered by Riemschneider K.K. 2004a: 172–173. Neu E. 1968a: 72 n. 3 proposes to reconstruct the verb forms in obv. 4′ and 8′ as ir-ḫa-it-ta-ri, but there is no parallel that would warrant his restoration. The passage of the fragment may fit into a gap in months four, five, or ten in CTH 532.3. But since so little is preserved, the fragment may as well belong to CTH 532.4, CTH 532.6, or CTH 532.8, or an entirely different text.

Overview of contents

Section 1ID=9.1Fragments of lunar eclipse omens
Editio ultima: 2024-07-02