The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

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Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.)
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CTH 573.90

Bird oracle fragment by the augur EN.GAL

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Abschnitt 1ID=1: §1´. Oracle report: augur EN.GAL

1ID=1 --

[…] …

2ID=2 --

[…] …

3ID=3 --

[An e]agle came in front from the favorable side

4ID=4 --

[… it fle]w […].

5ID=5 --

A maršanašši- bird [cam]e […]

6ID=6 --

It met a fellow (bird) ‘below’ tar(uya)lian.

7ID=7 --

[They arriv]ed (together)

8ID=8 --

and they [flew] away in front.

9ID=9 --

[Behind the road]:1

10ID=10 --

two maršanašši- birds [cam]e […]

11ID=11 --

and they [met] an eagle ‘below GUN-lian.

12ID=12 --

[The two marš]anašši- birds flew away in the middle.

13ID=13 --

[The eagle, however,] came!2 [in the back] up from the favorable side

14ID=14 --

and it flew a[way …].

15ID=15 --

Thus (says) mEN.GAL:

16ID=16 --

“it was confirmed”.

Abschnitt 2ID=2: §2´ Lost

17ID=17 --

[…]

l. c. breaks off
1
Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 334.
2
The verb is plural, probably mistaken, based on the content of the next sentence. A possible solution would be that there are in fact three maršanašši- mentioned in line 7´, and the gap should be restored as: [1-aš-ma-kán TI₈MUŠEN-na EGIR] “One (of them) and the eagle …”. However, this would be inconsistent with the singular verb in the following line, l. c. 11´.
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