Valerii Ivanov and Ilya Yakubovich (Hrsg.)

Citatio: Valerii Ivanov and Ilya Yakubovich (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 764.6 (INTR 2025-08-01)


CTH 764.6

Fragment of one or two Hittite conjurations

introductio



Kurzbeschreibung

The description of headache symptoms and a mythological narrative could be found on the obverse. The reverse contains the final part of a conjuration with a fragmentary colophon.

Texte

Exemplar AABoT 2.243AnAr 9251Ḫattuša

Literaturauszug aus der Konkordanz

  • R. Akdoğan, DBH 32, 2010: 121f.
  • R. Akdoğan, FsKošak, 2007: 1-12 (mit Autographie und Photo)

Inhaltsübersicht

Abschnitt 1ID=1Body parts are mentioned
Abschnitt 2ID=2A head disease of human child
Abschnitt 3ID=3Inquiry of the Sun-god, response of the Protective god of Tauriša
Abschnitt 4ID=4A tongue is mentioned
Abschnitt 5ID=5Healing the human child
Abschnitt 6ID=6Colophon

History of publication

The commented edition of this text was published by Akdoğan R. 2007a: 1–12, its transliteration is also available in Akdoğan R. 2010b: 121–122.

Tablet characteristics

The fragment belongs to a middle part of the tablet and preserves a part of its left edge and the adjacent text on both sides. It remains unknown whether we are dealing with a one- or two-column tablet.

Palaeography and handwriting

Middle Script

Text transmission

Unknown find spot in Ḫattuša

Intertextuality

The conjuration on the reverse of the tablet contains lists of landscape elements and various animals, which are different from those in CTH 764.1 and CTH 764.5.1.

General information

It is not certain, whether the preserved parts of the obverse and the reverse reflect one or two conjurations. The fragmentary text of the obverse contains the mentions of all the three gods of the Tauriša triad. Another feature that allows to attribute it to the Tauriša tradition is a historiola followed by a dialog among the gods. The text is replete with mentions of body parts, diseases are also mentioned, while the patient is called the “human child”.

Editio ultima: 2025-08-01