Translatio CTH 544.1

The Corpus of Hittite Divinatory Texts (HDivT)

Citatio: Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 544.1 (TRde 2025-09-09)

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Abschnitt 1ID=1.1: ašku-animal omens
beginning of the text lost; almost one column missing
1ID=1	--	[I]f […] leaves the hous[e]
2ID=2	--	and ašk[u-animals] spring forth one by one
3ID=3	--	[…] will fall.
4ID=4	--	If ašku-animals […] from a storage vessel1:
5ID=5	--	The domestics will peris[h].
6ID=6	--	If ašku-animals spring [forth] from under a thron[e]:
7ID=7	--	That throne will be toppled over.
gap of more than one column
Abschnitt 2ID=1.2: Fragmentary omens
8ID=8	--	… […]
9ID=9	--	[…] fro[m …]
10ID=10	--	If […]
gap of one column
Abschnitt 3ID=1.3: Lizard omens
11ID=11	--	[…] …
12ID=12	--	[…] will happen.
13ID=13	--	[…] enters a house:
14ID=14	--	submission of the house.
15ID=15	--	But if a red lizard is seen:
16ID=16	--	The house’s welfare will come to pa[ss].
17ID=17	--	But if a black lizard is seen in […]:
18ID=18	--	… […]
19ID=19	--	… […]

More likely than a ‘drain pipe’, which is rarely mentioned in terrestrial omens.

Editio ultima: Traductionis 2025-09-09