Valerii Ivanov and Ilya Yakubovich (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Valerii Ivanov and Ilya Yakubovich (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 764.3 (INTR 2025-08-01)


CTH 764.3

Fragment of a Luwian conjuration

introductio



Kurzbeschreibung

This Luwian fragment contains a first-person narrative.

Texte

Exemplar AKUB 35.96Bo 1652Ḫattuša

Inhaltsübersicht

Abschnitt 1ID=1First person report of seeing landscape elements

History of publication

This text was published in Starke F. 1985a: 246, where it was defined as a pregnancy spell.

Tablet characteristics

The fragment is one-sided and preserves a part of the lower edge of the tablet with the Randleiste.

Palaeography and handwriting

The ductus is possibly Middle Script, although Starke F. 1985a: 218 dates it to the end of the 14th century BCE.

Text transmission

Unknown location in Ḫattuša.

Intertextuality

The list of landscape elements in this Luwian fragment finds suggestive parallels in CTH 764.2.

General information

Perhaps we are dealing with the report of a divine messenger about a disruption on earth.

Editio ultima: 2025-08-01