Valerii Ivanov and Ilya Yakubovich (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Valerii Ivanov and Ilya Yakubovich (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 764.4 (INTR 2025-08-01)


CTH 764.4

One nearly complete and one fragmentary conjuration in Hittite

introductio



Kurzbeschreibung

The first conjuration features a mythological narrative telling about the botched feast of the gods. Its colophon contains a receipt of the remedy against an eye-disease. The second conjuration is against headache. Only its incipit is preserved.

Texte

Exemplar AKBo 12.89247/sHaH

Inhaltsübersicht

Abschnitt 1ID=1The botched feast of the gods sitting in the windows
Abschnitt 2ID=2Inquiry of Kamrušepa
Abschnitt 3ID=3Retelling the story about the botched divine feast
Abschnitt 4ID=4Report of the injury to the eyes of the human child
Abschnitt 5ID=5Instructions for preparing the remedy and applying it to the patient
Abschnitt 6ID=6Colophon of the preceding conjuration and scribal addition
Abschnitt 7ID=7Incipit of the conjuration against headache and another disease
Abschnitt 8ID=8Unclear

History of publication

This text was published in transliteration in Starke F. 1985a: 242–243 as a pregnancy spell and re-edited in transliteration in Torri G. – Barsacchi F.G. 2018a: 99–101.

Tablet characteristics

The tablet contains a single column of both sides together with a portion of the right edge. Judging by the width of the restored columns, we are probably dealing with a one-column tablet. The position of obverse and reverse is determined based on the observation that the text on the reverse appears to continue directly that on the obverse. Note that a different order of columns is proposed in the autographic edition.

Palaeography and handwriting

Middle Script

Linguistic characteristics

The Hittite text of the first conjuration contains Luwian foreign words.

Text transmission

The tablet was found in the House on the Slope.

Intertextuality

The first conjuration found on this tablet must be considered together with the stories of unsuccessful divine banquets found in CTH 764.1. The main difference here is that human misfortunes are not directly caused by an offended god but rather introduced as a parallel to divine sufferings.

General information

A peculiarity of this conjuration consists in the instructions for the medical treatment of the eye disease. The concurrent mention of the Sun-god and Kamrušepa, as well as the reference to Kamrušepa looking down from the sky and retelling the banquet story, strongly support the attribution of this text to the Tauriša tradition.

Editio ultima: 2025-08-01