The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

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Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 573.36 (TRde 2025-08-08)


CTH 573.36

Two bird oracle reports

translatio



Abschnitt 1ID=1: (§1) First report

1ID=1 --

[]

2ID=2 --

[] []

3ID=3 --

I will proceed to do []

4ID=4 --

[]

5ID=5 --

If for myself this is favorable,

6ID=6 --

(and) not []:

7ID=7 --

let the birds confirm (it).

8ID=8 --

[We saw] a ‘wide-wing’ bird []

9ID=9 --

[and] it flew away in the middle.

10ID=10 --

[We saw] a marša[našši- bird …]

11ID=11 --

it came in the back up from the favorable side

12ID=12 --

[and it flew].

13ID=13 --

Behind the road:

14ID=14 --

[we saw] a tapašši- bird G[UN-lian]

15ID=15 --

and it flew away in front.

16ID=16 --

[]1.

Abschnitt 2ID=2: (§2) Second report

17ID=17 --

His Majesty will proceed to [] him/that one []

18ID=18 --

[If you, O deity] will turn in favor [],

19ID=19 --

let the bird[s confirm/exclude (it)].

20ID=20 --

A [š]alwini- bird [came/flew] lengthways G[UN-li].

21ID=21 --

[A … bird …]

22ID=22 --

and it flew away in front.

23ID=23 --

[A … bird …] came [… from the unfavor]able side.

24ID=24 --

It turned back,

25ID=25 --

[it …].

26ID=26 --

[and i]t flew away in the middle.

27ID=27 --

[Behind the road:]2

28ID=28 --

[We saw … birds …],

29ID=29 --

they [came] in the back up from the favorable side

30ID=30 --

[and they …].3

obv. breaks off

Possibly, the remainder of this line contained the augural response, unless we have to imagine the two paragraphs in this text only contained the recording of the bird flights without their interpretation.
As in the previous paragraph, the augurs’ response is also expected in this line.
Editio ultima: Traductionis 2025-08-08