The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

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Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Andrea Trameri (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 573.99 (TRde 2025-08-12)


CTH 573.99

Bird oracle reports by the augur Mawiri, for an angry deity

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Abschnitt 1ID=1: obv. I §1´. Oracle report by Mawiri

1ID=1 --

[]

2ID=2 --

I[f …]

3ID=3 --

[] is ang[ered …]

4ID=4 --

An ara[mnant- bird …]

5ID=5 --

A ‘wide-win[g’ bird …]

6ID=6 --

A maršanašš[i- bird …]

7ID=7 --

Two eagles []

8ID=8 --

An eagle [] in the b[ack …]

9ID=9 --

Another (one), however, []

10ID=10 --

[and it] flew away [].

11ID=11 --

Beh[ind the road]:

12ID=12 --

[]

13ID=13 --

An eagle [came] lengthways from the unfa[vorable side …]1

14ID=14 --

Thus (says) Mawir[i]:

15ID=15 --

[“they excluded (it).”]2

Abschnitt 2ID=2: obv. I §2´. Follow-up oracle report: ‘that bird which …’

16ID=16 --

That maršana[šši-] bird which []

17ID=17 --

[… it] flew [diagonally/lengthways] from the unfavorable side.

18ID=18 --

If [you, O] dei[ty …]

19ID=19 --

[] you keep seeing something []

20ID=20 --

Those [birds(?)].

21ID=21 --

[Let] the birds exclude (it).

22ID=22 --

[A … bird …]

23ID=23 --

and it [perched on] the ground tar(uya)lian

24ID=24 --

[][]

obv. I breaks off

Abschnitt 3ID=3: rev. IV §3´. Lost

25ID=25 --

[][]

blank paragraph, ca. nine lines

Abschnitt 4ID=4: rev, IV §4´. Oracle report: an angry(?) deity

26ID=26 --

Which(ever) divine entity was confirmed (to be angry)

27ID=27 --

[] we [(do not)] know [],

28ID=28 --

if, [concerning] there is nothing we should fear []

29ID=29 --

no one has/holds []

three blank lines

rev. IV breaks off

An additional sentence was probably present in this lacuna, before the augur’s determination.
Tentative; following Sakuma Y. 2009b II, 353. A negative result might be inferred from the reference to the flight from the ‘unfavorable’ side in the following report.
Editio ultima: Traductionis 2025-08-12