Translatio CTH 573.17

The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

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Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.)

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Citatio: Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 573.17 (TRde 2025-08-06)

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CTH 573.17

Bird oracle for an angry deity

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Abschnitte

1Oracle question: an angry deity

2Oracle report

3Oracle report: ‘behind the road’

4Augural response

[…]

Abschnitt 1ID=1: Oracle question: an angry deity
blank
1ID=1	--	[…] it was confirmed (that) [a deity …] is in anger.
2ID=2	--	[… if … he/she] is not at all in anger:
3ID=3	--	[Let the birds exclude (it)].1
Abschnitt 2ID=2: Oracle report
4ID=4	--	We saw [a … bird] GUN-lian
5ID=5	--	[… it ca]me […]
6ID=6	--	and it flew diagonally tar(uya)li-
7ID=7	--	We saw [a … bird …],
8ID=8	--	and it [came] in the back down [from the unfavorable side].
9ID=9	--	[…]
10ID=10	--	[We saw an ar]amnant- bird tar(uya)li[an],
11ID=11	--	[…]
Abschnitt 3ID=3: Oracle report: ‘behind the road’
12ID=12	--	Behind the road:
13ID=13	--	[we saw] an eagle tar(uya)lian
14ID=14	--	[…]
15ID=15	--	and it f[lew] away in the middle.
Abschnitt 4ID=4: Augural response
16ID=16	--	[Thus (says) …]:
17ID=17	--	[“they ex]cluded it”.
18ID=18	--	[…]
19ID=19	--	[…]
rev. blank as far as preserved

Tentative; see also Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 472. Based on the negative wording of obv. 2´ (“… not at all …”), the formula “Let the birds exclude it” typically follows, rather than “Let the birds confirm it”. This restoration seems also more likely based on the response at obv. 9´ (“they excluded it”) – a ‘positive’ outcome in this case, as this was the expected answer. Although this pattern applies in most cases, the alternative restoration, yielding a ‘negative’ meaning of the response, cannot be ruled out.

Editio ultima: Traductionis 2025-08-06