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KBo 43, 173 (P440645)

CTH 670, Middle Hittite, Ḫattusa · c. 1500 BCE–1180 BCE

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Designation	KBo 43, 173
ID	P440645
Museum no.	63/g
Collection	Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi, Ankara, Turkey
Language	Hittite
Period	Middle Hittite · c. 1500 BCE–1180 BCE
Genre	CTH 670
Find spot	Ḫattusa (mod. Boğazkale)
Coordinates	40.0144, 34.6164

Transliteration (ATF)

From Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis (TLHdig) Beta 0.3 · CC BY 4.0

Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-H, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
lk. Kol.
1′	]x x[ ]
2′	Š]U?-ŠI 2{KAM} pa-it	Hand-of-the-2nd day, opening
3′	ŠA]Ḫ nu DUMU.LÚ.U₁₉.LU-aš DUMU x[	... and the nobleman, the son of ...(lower confidence: line is broken)
4′	]x-aš-ša-an	... and ...(very low confidence: a guess)
5′	]x ⸢ka⸣-a-aš LUGAL-uš	... the king ...(lower confidence: line is broken)
6′	]x-iš pa-it	... the gate ...(low confidence: few signs survive)
7′	]x-a-at IGI.DU₈.A-ia-za	... of my eyeballs(lower confidence: line is broken)
8′	{MUNUS.MEŠ}?K]AR.KID nu-wa-ra-aš-kán	The šakku-priestess and the ...(lower confidence: line is broken)
9′	]x LUGAL-uš-ša	... the king(low confidence: few signs survive)
10′	]-zi	... he takes(very low confidence: a guess)
11′	]-zi	... he takes(very low confidence: a guess)
12′	]-ma	... and(very low confidence: a guess)
13′	m]a-aḫ-ḫa-an-ma	... and(very low confidence: a guess)
14′	]x-zi
15′	]-zi	... he takes(very low confidence: a guess)
lk. Kol. 16″	]x{ḪI.A}
r. Kol.
1′	x[
2′	pa-⸢ra-a⸣ x[	he breaks ...(low confidence: few signs survive)
3′	UŠ-KÉ-E[N	He prostrates himself.(low confidence: few signs survive)
4′	EGIR-an-da-ma [	Afterwards,(low confidence: few signs survive)
5′	ŠAEZEN₄ MU-t[i	That festival(low confidence: few signs survive)
6′	{GIŠ}BANŠUR-az ta-ni-⸢nu⸣-[wa-an-zi	They place it on the table.(lower confidence: line is broken)
7′	DINGIR!{MEŠ}-aš ta-ni-nu-wa-an-[z]i x[	The gods ...(lower confidence: line is broken)
8′	ma-ni-ia-aḫ-ḫa-an-za [DU]MU.⸢É⸣.[GAL	Maniyaḫanna, the palace official(lower confidence: line is broken)
9′	LUGAL-uš-kán ⸢{É⸣}k[i?-ip-p]a-aš x[	The king, in the kippa-house ...(lower confidence: line is broken)
10′	DUMU.É.GAL LUGAL-i [ME]-⸢E⸣ QA-T[I	The palace official speaks to the king: ...
11′	GADA-an pa-a-i LUGA[L-u]š-za QA-[TI-ŠU a-an-ši]	He takes a linen cloth and gives it to the king.
12′	nu-kán A-NA{D}UTU ŠA-ME-⸢E⸣ [	And to Šamaš of the temple ...(lower confidence: line is broken)
13′	ki-iš-ša-⸢an⸣ [	thus ...(low confidence: few signs survive)
14′	1 {GU₄}ÁB ⸢29?⸣ UDU{ḪI.A}-ia A-[NA	1 ox and 29 sheep for(lower confidence: line is broken)
15′	1 GU₄ [n] UDU 1 MÁŠ.GAL A-N[A	1 ox, n sheep, 1 big goat for
16′	⸢{D}me⸣-e[z-z]u-ul-la {D}x[	Mešulla, ...(lower confidence: line is broken)
17′	[ ]x 1 UDU 1 MÁŠ.GAL A-N[A	... 1 sheep, 1 big goat for(lower confidence: line is broken)
18′	[ ]x ḫu-u-ma-an-d[a(-)	... he places ...(low confidence: few signs survive)
19′	[ ]x-an-ni A-NA [	... to ...(very low confidence: a guess)
20′	[ ]-ra-aš A-NA {D}x[	... to ...(very low confidence: a guess)
21′	[ ]x 1 UDU-ma ⸢A⸣-[NA	... one sheep for(lower confidence: line is broken)
22′	[ ] 1 MÁŠ.GAL A-N[A	... 1 large goat for ...(lower confidence: line is broken)
23′	[ ] ⸢1⸣ MÁŠ.GAL-ia [	... one mare ...(low confidence: few signs survive)
24′	[ ]x x[

Sources & licences

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis (TLHdig) Beta 0.3 · CC BY 4.0 · Müller, G., Prechel, D., Rieken, E., Schwemer, D. (2026). TLHdig Beta Version 0.3. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.20328284

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