Cult inventory

(CTH 527.30)

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

Palaeography: Older LI.

This fragment preserves very interesting descriptions of cult objects. In lines 11′-12′ mount Kammaliya is treated, which is associated to Ḫarziuna in KUB 53.43 (Forlanini 2009: 57 fn. 57).

5′: The expression kēzza kēzza is to be considered a variant of the more usual kēz … kēzziya.

6′: The interpretation of the sequence ŠA AN ZI is uncertain; formally it would belong to šāi- “to become sulking, angry; to quarrel with each other,” which seems unlikely in the present context. An emendation in šiyanzi (〈 šāi- / šiye- “to impress; seal; put on”) is problematical, too. Güterbock (1983: 210 with fn. 50) tentatively proposed to read ŠA anzi, where anzi would be a haplographic writing of the goddess Anzili without determinative (for which he adduces a parallel).

6′/7′: Cf. Kp 15/45a iii 8. The unit used is uncertain: based on the traces certainly not šekan; perhaps SIG.KÙŠ?

8′: A phonetic writing is also possible, e.g. gur-zi-ip-p[a-an], cf. KUB 38.6+ i 27′, KBo 2.1 ii 22.

9′: Note the remarkable presence of an (engraved?) image of a king Muršili.

14′: For phonetic āššu in lieu of the more usual SIG5 cf. KUB 38.2 ii 10′.

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