Translatio CTH 549.2

The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

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Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.)

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Citatio: Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 549.2 (TRde 2024-07-01)

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CTH 549.2

Fragment with Akkadian KI.GUB-omens

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1Observation of weapon marks on the ‘position’

Abschnitt 1ID=2.1: Observation of weapon marks on the ‘position’
1ID=1	--	[… …]…
2ID=2	--	Alternatively: The gods will […] the king.
3ID=3	--	[… …]…
4ID=4	--	The deity will [come] to help […].
5ID=5	--	[…] seizes […]:
6ID=6	--	Either the arm[y …]
7ID=7	--	[or …] will [f]lee.1
8ID=8	--	[… li]es […]
9ID=9	--	and […] the ‘palace gate’:
10ID=10	--	[…] the king …[… …].
11ID=11	--	[If a weapon lies on the top] of the [‘p]osition’
12ID=12	--	and [i]n the middle of the ‘p[osition’ …]:
13ID=13	--	[The client] will [overcome] his legal adversary.2
14ID=14	--	[If] a weapon lies [on] the top of the ‘position’
15ID=15	--	and a filament seizes the […] at the top3 of […]:
16ID=16	--	The king […]
17ID=17	--	[… …]… lies [… behin]d the ‘position’
18ID=18	--	and […]
19ID=19	--	[… the en]emy […]
20ID=20	--	[…]
text breaks off

The writing DU.DU for illak is found regularly in the Boghazköy-texts (e. g. KBo 36.47, rev. III 8’). It is also found in Middle Babylonian omens from Susa (MDP 57.6, IV 44).

The phrasesilurēṣūt X illak, X arbūtamillak, and awīluelibēlawātīšuizzazare common in second-millennium extispicy omens(KAL 5.42, obv. II 5 (weapon)); KAL 5.60-61, obv. 16’(lungs); YOS 10.33, 32 (finger).The fragmentary state of the tablet unfortunately makes it difficult to find entirely identical omens elsewhere.

The sign read iš/eš₁₅ in SAG-eš₁₅? looks the same as ṣú in l. 2′, but after a preposition, the form rēšīšu is expected. The plene spelling ṣa-a-bi-itin the stative is also unexpected. Short vowels in plene writing are occasionally found in Southern Old Babylonian and Sealand omen texts (George A.R. 2013a: 54.89.137). Other instances of unexpected in-word plene spellings are e. g. KUB 4.66 col. ii7.

Editio ultima: Traductionis 2024-07-01