Cult inventory

(CTH 526.39)

Textual tradition

Basis of the edition

The present edition is based on the photographs available at the Mainzer Photoarchiv of the Hethitologie Portal Mainz, as well as the available hand-copies and relevant secondary literature up to 2019. When the original manuscripts have been collated, this is noted in the commentary.

Commentary

Previous editions: Hazenbos 2003: 156-59

The geographical setting of the inventory seems to include, or be in the nearby of, the town Tuḫupiya, perhaps south of Ḫattuša (Cammarosano and Marizza 2015: 169-70 with literature).

Palaeography and orthography: Late UN (rev. 3′); peculiar variant of NA (e.g. rev. 1′, 6′; cf. HZL no. 15/13). Note the spelling of Labarna with the sign PA (rev. 10′).

obv. 16′: For the interpretation of this line see Beal 2005/06: 362: “but [the men of the tem]ples built them.”

obv. 7′: Cf. rev. 10′.

obv. 8′: Whether the subordinate king is that of Tumanna as proposed by Hazenbos is very uncertain (see Cammarosano and Marizza 2015: 169-70).

obv. 10′: Reading after Wilhelm 1997: 21.

obv. 12′: The reading of QA as determinative was suggested by F. Wiggermann (apud Hazenbos 2003: 157 with fn. 185).

obv. 13′: On the uncertain interpretation of this line see Wilhelm 1997: 21 and Hazenbos 2003: 157.

rev. 12′: The PN is a hapax. Given the spacing between the signs IR and PA, the reading is uncertain.

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