Translatio CTH 544.2

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Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.)

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Citatio: Mathis Kreitzscheck (Hrsg.), hethiter.net/: CTH 544.2 (TRde 2025-09-09)

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CTH 544.2

Hittite omens about animals appearing in the house

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1Fragmentary omens

2ašku-animal omens and animals in the house

Abschnitt 1ID=2.1: Fragmentary omens
beginning of the text lost, almost two columns missing
1ID=1	--	… […]
2ID=2	--	… […]
3ID=3	--	[…] …
4ID=4	--	… […]
5ID=5	--	… […]
6ID=6	--	[…] …
7ID=7	--	… […]
8ID=8	--	… […]
9ID=9	--	[…] …
10ID=10	--	[…] …
11ID=11	--	[…] …
gap of 5-6 lines
Abschnitt 2ID=2.2: ašku-animal omens and animals in the house
12ID=12	--	An ašku-animal1 appears […] … :
13ID=13	--	[…] will die.
14ID=14	--	[…] in the store room2 […]:
15ID=15	--	[…] the store room will become empty.
16ID=16	--	[…] are seen in/come into the washhouse:
17ID=17	--	[…] will leave from […].
18ID=18	--	An ašku-animal […] … :
19ID=19	--	[The dom]estics will perish.
20ID=20	--	[…] an ašku-animal […]:
21ID=21	--	[…]
22ID=22	--	[An]d they will demol[is]h them.3
23ID=23	--	[…] outside […]
24ID=24	--	[…]
25ID=25	--	The man […]
26ID=26	--	[…] … will die.
27ID=27	--	[…]
28ID=28	--	[…] …
gap of likely more than one column

A small animal that can jump, perhaps a type of saurian (gecko? Cf. CT 38.42, 52; CT 40.28 K 3731+, 7′-8′, Riemschneider K.K. 2004a: 235) or insect (Friedrich J. – Kammenhuber A. 1975-1984a: s. v.; Collins B.J. 1989a: 262). See Hoffner H.A. 1974a: 92; Friedrich J. 1945-1951b: 106 n. 23 for other proposals.

Or ‘private quarters’? Cf. Otten H. – Soden W. von 1968a: 27-32; Melchert H.C. 2024a: 233.

arrirandari is perhaps an unfortunate translation of naqāru, which can mean ‘to scratch’, especially when referring to inscriptions, but which in omen texts usually appears in the meaning ‘to demolish’, cf. šumma ālu 49, 154′; 60, 54′.

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