Kurzbeschreibung |
This text is devoted to the restoration of a relationship between a child and his parents and contains protective spells against an evil-doer.
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Inhaltsübersicht |
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History of publication |
This text was published in transliteration in Starke F. 1985a: 260–263 as an unspecified spell and re-edited in transliteration in Torri G. – Barsacchi F.G. 2018b: 292–296.
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Tablet characteristics |
The two-column tablet is broken at the intercolumnium, but columns two and three are almost fully preserved, except for the bottom of column two and the top of column three. A small fragment of the right lower part of the column one is also extant. Column four is fully lost except for several sings belonging to it but found in the intercolumnium.
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Palaeography and handwriting |
New Script
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Linguistic characteristics |
The description of ritual gestures and the curse formula are in Hittite, the rest of the text is in Luwian.
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Text transmission |
This fragment was found in the House on the Slope.
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Intertextuality |
The curse against whoever wishes to harm a child (section 10), which has parallels with protection spells in CTH 766.1.1.a (sections 12, 14–15, 18) and CTH 766.2.1 (section 2). In addition, the spell for the evil spirits enjoined to turn away from the human child (section 7) resonates with the partly preserved spell mentioning the evil spirits in CTH 766.1.1.b (section 3).
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General information |
The structure of this text is different from all the previous ones in that it represents a transitional case between a conjuration and a ritual. On the one hand, it features Hittite passages describing manipulations with ritual artifacts and perhaps even a sacrifice to evil spirits. On the other hand, some of its passages bear formulaic resemblance to other texts booked under CTH 766. The term for ritual (SISKUR) is never mentioned in the preserved part of the text, while the patient is called DUMU.LÚ.U₁₉.LU or simply DUMU, which is consistent with a hypothesis of an extended conjuration.
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