The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

Digital Edition and Cultural Historical Analysis

Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 533.7 (TRde 2026-03-08)


CTH 533.7

Omens from lunar halos

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Abschnitt 1ID=1: Stars in the lunar halo

unknown number of lines missing

1ID=1 --

[]

2ID=2 --

[]

3ID=3 --

[If the moon has a ha]lo

4ID=4 --

and to its lef[t …]:

5ID=5 --

[A country wh]ich [has] had [misfortune]

6ID=6 --

will [experience] prosperity.

7ID=7 --

If the moon has a ha]lo

8ID=8 --

and in the halo stand [one or two sta]rs1

9ID=9 --

or (in the halo) stand three or four stars:

10ID=10 --

[] will [].

11ID=11 --

In battle, the army will suffer heavy losses.

Abschnitt 2ID=2: Colophon exemplar B

We expect ‘one or two stars’, but the gap in exemplar B is so wide that it is looks as if something else was written there. Perhaps the numbers were spelled out.
Editio ultima: Traductionis 2026-03-08