The text edited here contains oracles relating to the military activities of Tattamaru. Owing to the state of preservation of the text, the exact content of the oracular questions is usually very difficult to discern. The only questions which are well preserved enough as to be intelligible concern where Tattamaru’s troops will come from, and which cities he will attack.

Handcopies: Walther A. 1926a; Archi A. 1979e.

Partial transliteration: Tischler J. 2019a, 18-22.

Partial edition: Sakuma Y. 2009b, II 112-119.

The preserved fragments represent part of just one column of a tablet of indeterminate size. Since the edge of the tablet and any column dividers are not preserved, it cannot be determined how large the original text was nor how many columns it had. Each oracular investigation is separated with a single ruling, with double rulings used to mark off new questions.

Late New Hittite script (diagnostic signs: ID, DA, E, IG, LI, RU, ŠA, TAR). Note in particular the IIIc forms of ḪA.

So far as can be determined from the surviving text, these oracles relate to potential military campaigns to be undertaken by Tattamaru, who was the son of the royal prince Šaḫrunuwa, and married to the niece of Puduḫepa. Several texts give an indication of his political standing. In the bronze tablet treaty between Tudḫaliya IV and Kurunta of Tarḫuntašša, Tattamaru appears as a witness, as well as in the Ulmiteššub treaty (KBo 4.10 rev. 30). Other oracle texts pertain to his relationship with the royal court (KBo 24.126, KUB 49.14+, KUB 31.32). According to the bronze tablet, he was also a prominent military leader, as GAL UKU.UŠ of the left (on this title, see Beal R.H. 1992a, 380-391; Bilgin T. 2018a, 219-231), which matches the fact that this text relates to the possibility of his leading military campaigns. On Tattamaru, see Beal R.H. 1992a, 386-387; Hout Th.P.J. van den 1995c, 116-124 ; Bilgin T. 2018A, 226-227.

The bird oracles in this text were carried out by Arma-ziti, an augur known from a number of other texts (KUB 4.1; KUB 2.6+; KUB 50.57; KUB 50.58+; KBo 2.6+; KBo 54.110+; KUB 49.33).

Of the sites mentioned in this text as the potential locations of Tattamaru’s campaign or origin of his troops, the only ones attestest elsewhere are Ištitina (known from the Annals of Muršili II, CTH 61), Ura (KBo 2.9+, Obv. I 12′; KBo 12.42, rev. 3; AboT 1.49, obv. 6′; AboT 2.110, obv. 3) and Ḫimmuwa (HKM 13, obv. 4; KUB 13.2, rev. III 33; KBo 6.6 obv. I 21; CHDS 4.125, obv. I 7′; KBo 31.87 II/III 5′; KUB 9.1, obv. I 20′, II 7; KBo 59.163, obv. 2′; KUB 7.11 obv. 1′, 4′; AboT 2.190 obv. 4′; CHDS 2.39, 2′).