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re-edition of Hittite Hedammu fragments KUB 36, 56+95 and other additons to the tekst of Hedammu
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This contribution was published as part of: M. Jaques, Mon dieu qu'ai-je fait? Les diĝir-šà-dab(5)-ba et la piété privée en Mésopotamie (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 273), Fribourg – Göttingen 2015, pp. 349–93, 421–57 Since the hand-copy of the cuneiform fragment MAH 16861 was omitted by mistake, a few formatting mistakes crept in, the separate bibliography and pagination were removed and the contribution was split up within the book, I suggest that users refer to the online version published here rather than the version published in OBO 273.
“Der erste Eindruck, den man empfängt, wenn man einen Blick auf die hethitische Götterwelt wirft, ist Chaos. Eine unendliche Fülle von Götternamen und Göttergestalten tritt uns entgegen”. These words, which open the chapter on Hittite religion in A. Goetze’s ground-breaking book, Kleinasien, come naturally to mind as one approaches the text CTH 510, a well-known Hittite cult inventory which lists gods, cult images and festivals of a great number of provincial settlements. The panthea of those towns and villages are almost as heterogeneous a mixture as one could want: unique among the entire corpus of Hittite texts, this composition witnesses the cult of Mesopotamian gods mixed together with a plethora of local, regional, and pan-Hittite Anatolian deities. After reviewing extant manuscripts and the composition’s Sitz im Leben, an edition of CTH 510 will be presented. It is based on a new reconstruction of the tablets and on the restitution of previously unpublished portions of text. By using an innovative methodology for the inspection and manipulation of 3D-scanned tablets, this paper also aims at illustrating the potential of a computer-aided approach for the study of cuneiform sources.
A dissertation on the ritual practitioners known as the "Old Women," who served the Hittite royal family in Bronze Age Turkey. The texts demonstrate a coherent and cohesive system for approaching metaphysical problems using physical methods. The Old Women were the primary personnel in charge of counteracting sorcery and other negative supernatural forces directed against the Hittite king, and this dissertation serves as a comprehensive analysis of their function and method.
In an oftenq uoted passage of an Old-Hittite ritual fort he erectiono fanewp alace, KUB29.1(+)(CTH 414), 1 thekingsays:
Anatolica 38, 2012
This paper presents the restoration of KUB 35.146, a MS Hittite-Luwian ritual fragment which has several passages running parallel to paragraphs of other ritual texts. Such a topic gives us an opportunity to make some observations about how Hittite ritual texts were composed.
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The research finds that IŠTAR seduces Ḫedammu using charms and a special aphrodisiacum in a detailed narrative from the fragmentary text of KUB 36, 56 + 95.
The findings suggest a close relationship between the Ugaritic Baal cycle and the Hittite Ḫedammu myth, with both featuring themes of royal conflict and divine seduction.
This episode emerged from the discovery of fragments in the early 2000s, revealing narrative elements that were previously obscure in the study of Near Eastern myths.
Several fragments, including the Hurrian KUB 45, 63, suggest multiple narratives of the Sea and its encounters, linking to both Hittite and Ugaritic traditions.
Recent findings indicate Astarte's prominent participation alongside the Weather God in battles, enhancing her importance in the mythological hierarchy within Ugaritic texts.
In this article the First Tablet of the Hurritic Bilingual Song of Release is reconstructed and studied in the light of Hurritic mythological tradition. It contains a handcopy of the reconstructed tablet
edition and interpretation of the known fragments, especially KBo 33, 137 + ABoT 2, 249 + KBo 54, 231 // KBo 51, 224 + KBo 35, 41
in: M. Jaques. "Mon dieu, qu'ai-je donc fait?" Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 273, 2015, 421–457
ib: B. Becking and H.M. Barstad, Prophecy and Prophets in Stories. Papers Read at the Fifth Meeting of the Edinburgh Prophets Network Utrecht, October 2013, (OTS , 65), Leiden?Boston 2015, 11-25
The Hittite cuneiform texts and the archeological evidence point out clearly that the Hittites had a polytheist belief in their religious life. One of the most important gods which take place in this religious system is Goddess Išhara. This goddess has an important role in Hittite Pantheon including one thousand Hittite sacred gods. Goddess Išhara, who has a Mesopotamian origin, and who is transported to the Anatolia by Hurrians, is also the most important goddess of the Kizzuwatna region. Išhara is both illness-and cure-bestowed goddess; it also seems that a number of attributes such as underground, plant, mountain, river, spring, queen of oath, sexuality / propagation, cursing, sin, blood, dirtiness and making purification from the harmful things are given to this goddess. purifying from the dirtiness/evil.
Meindert Dijkstra