The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

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Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 573.1 (TRde 2024-07-24)


CTH 573.1

Bird oracle fragment from combined oracle

translatio



Abschnitt 1ID=1:

1ID=1 --

Through the augur, the same (question).

2ID=2 --

Let the birds confirm it.

3ID=3 --

[]

4ID=4 --

We observed a [‘wide-w]ing’ bird tar(uya)lian,

5ID=5 --

it [came] in fr[ont from …]

6ID=6 --

We saw a [šaluw]a- bird1 tar(uya)lian

7ID=7 --

it [came/flew] dia[gonally] tar(uya)li-.

8ID=8 --

We saw [a bird …]

9ID=9 --

and it flew diagonally tar(uya)li-

10ID=10 --

[Thus (says) … : “…”].2

text breaks off

While the broken name could be also restored as ḫūwa-, as Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 443 explains, this bird appears only in nominal sentences.
The presence of the paragraph line after l. 4´ suggests the response formula was written at the end of this line (see Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 443).
Editio ultima: Traductionis 2024-07-24