Translatio CTH 573.31

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 573.31 (TRde 2025-08-07)

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CTH 573.31

Bird oracles with a recording of thunder strike

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Abschnitt 1ID=1: obv. §1´
1ID=1	--	[…]
2ID=2	--	[… diag]onally
3ID=3	--	[a …bird] seized [a … bird …]
4ID=4	--	and it […] in front […]
5ID=5	--	[a … bird] flew taru(yali-) diagonally.
Abschnitt 2ID=2: obv. §2´
6ID=6	--	[(We saw) a … bird …]
7ID=7	--	it [came] in front from the favorable side
8ID=8	--	[and it …]
9ID=9	--	[An āram]nant- bird flew taru(yali-) diagonally.
10ID=10	--	[When the … bird was] in the back taru(yali)an, it thundered.1
11ID=11	--	[…] two eagles […].
12ID=12	--	We saw [a … bird] GUN(-li)an
Abschnitt 3ID=3: obv. §3´
13ID=13	--	[…] in fro[nt …]
14ID=14	--	[…] an eagle […]
obv. breaks off
Abschnitt 4ID=4: rev. §4´
15ID=15	--	[… di]agonally […]
16ID=16	--	[…] they turned back.
17ID=17	--	[A … bird]
18ID=18	--	it [met a … bird] ‘below’,
19ID=19	--	[…] they arrived (together) […].
20ID=20	--	[… birds … c]ame […].
21ID=21	--	One (bird) […]
22ID=22	--	[the other …].
Abschnitt 5ID=5: rev. §5´
23ID=23	--	[…] the house behind the town […]
24ID=24	--	[… birds] flew [diagonall]y, taru(yali)an.
25ID=25	--	[…]
rev. breaks off

Tentative. Alternatively, the position taru(yali-) does not refer to a bird flying, but to the location or direction where “it thundered”, thus: “[…] in the back, it thundered taru(yali-)” (thus also Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 614: “Es donnerte wieder im tar.-(Bereich)”). Possibly, this event was considered significant for oracular purposes, thus the augur recorded it in his report (see Introductio). In the corpus of Hittite augury there are no other recorded instances of thunder.

Editio ultima: Traductionis 2025-08-07