Translatio CTH 581.6

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 581.6 (TRde 2025-08-01)

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CTH 581.6

Letter(?) from Katapaili to the king, concerning rites at the temple of the Storm god of Manuziya

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Abschnitte

Abschnitt 1ID=1:
1ID=1	--	Katapai[li …] ca[me] back before His Majesty1
2ID=2	--	[…] you/he determined by oracle as follows.
3ID=3	--	His Majesty, […] comes back before2 the deity …[…].
4ID=4	--	and which(ever)/because […]:
5ID=5	--	“From the gate he performs it”.
6ID=6	--	He does not arrive at the temple of the [Storm god] (of) Man[uzi(ya)].
7ID=7	--	His Majesty goes away again.
8ID=8	--	He lets go your sheep right here3
9ID=9	--	and they make the implements of the deity.
10ID=10	--	Because this […] was confirmed (by oracle).
11ID=11	--	First, His Majesty […].
12ID=12	--	Because […]… of Maššanawa4 […] he determined [he]re by oracle.
13ID=13	--	[… it was confirm]ed.
14ID=14	--	Why not […] back [… a pl]ea … only His Majesty?
15ID=15	--	His Majesty himself arrives to the temple of the deity
16ID=16	--	and he recites5 a prayer for the deity.
17ID=17	--	If His Majesty did not summon (the gods) with evil intention,6
18ID=18	--	you will not pull him … into evil.
19ID=19	--	You will not step in front [of …].
20ID=20	--	He spoke a second time to His [Majesty].
21ID=21	--	He spoke a second time to Katapa[ili].
22ID=22	--	The birds (give/gave) confirmation.
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Tentative; unless peran appa pai- in context means “in and out” (cf. obv. 5) or “back and forth”. If the text is interpreted as a letter, the first line of the tablet might be also read: “Katapaili (says) to his Majesty: …”, but this sentence would be difficult to connect with the following line (obv. 2).

See however previous note.

Or, with 2SG imperative: “Let go your sheep right here!”.

Tentative reading of this personal name.

Lit. “makes”.

Therefore impurely? D/L. SG. idalawanni ‘badness, evil disposition’. See also the translation of the sentence in HW2 Ḫ, 106 γ (“Wenn aber Meine Sonne in böser Gesinnung nicht rief”).

Editio ultima: Traductionis 2025-08-01