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KBo 23.61 (tlh:KBo 23.61)

CTH 608

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Designation	KBo 23.61
ID	tlh:KBo 23.61
Language	Hittite
Genre	CTH 608

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)
1′	-a]n ⸢la⸣-[ḫu-wa-i(?)]	to ...(very low confidence: a guess)
2′	GEŠTIN-na?-a]n pár-na pé-⸢da-i?⸣ [DUMU.LUGAL a-ru-wa-ez-zi]	He pours wine. The crown prince libates.
3′	[ta-aš ti-i-e-z]i 7 e-ku-zi ⸢{D}⸣[UTU {D}me-ez-zu-ul-la-an {D}te-li-pí-nu-un]	And he drinks seven times before Šamaš, Mešullan and Telepinu.
4′	[{D}GAL.ZU] ⸢{D}⸣ta-aḫ-wi-la-nu-un ⸢{D}⸣[ku-uz-za-ni-šu-un {D}šu-šu-ma-ḫi-in]	GAL.ZU, Tahwilanu, Kuzzani, Šumaḫi
5′	[UGULA {LÚ.MEŠ}MUḪALDIM N]INDA.GUR₄.RA pár-šu-ul-li A-NADUMU.LUG[AL pa-a-i DUMU.LUGAL a-ru-wa-ez-zi ta-az da-a-i]	The overseer of the cooks breaks the loaf of bread and gives it to the crown prince. The crown prince libates; he takes it.
6′	[DUMU.LUGAL GE]ŠTIN-na-an É-er-za ú-ez-zi ta-aš ⸢A⸣-[NAÉ(?) {D}UTU ša-ra-a pa-iz-zi]	The prince goes into the house of the wine, and he goes to the temple of the Sun-deity.
7′	[LUGAL-uš {D}UTU] ⸢{D}⸣me-ez-zu-ul-la GUB-aš GIŠ.{D}INANNA GAL wa-a[l-ḫa-an-zi-iš-ša-an(?) {LÚ.MEŠ}ALAM.ZU₉]	The king, Šamaš, Mezzulla, standing, the great lyre, ... the cult actors
8′	[pal-ú-e-eš]-kán-zi LUGAL-uš ḫu-up-pa-ri ši-pa-an-ti LU[GAL-uš A-NA{LÚ}ALAM.ZU₉	The king libates to the cult actor.
9′	{NIN]DA}ḫar-ši-in ma-ni-ia-aḫ-ḫi a-ru-wa-ez-zi [ta-az da-a-i ta ma-al-di]	He takes the ḫaršin-bread and libates. He places it, and he places it.
10′	[LUGAL-uš {D}NIN].⸢É⸣.GAL TUŠ-aš GIŠ.{D}INANNA GAL {LÚ.MEŠ}ḫal-li-ri-eš [SÌR-RU {LÚ}SAGI LUGAL-i GAL-ri e-ep-zi]	The king, the queen, while seated, sings the great lyre; the cupbearer takes the great cup of the king.
11′	[{LÚ.MEŠ}SA]GI GAL{ḪI.A} pé-e-da-an-zi ⸢DUMU.LUGAL-ša?⸣ [GEŠTIN-na-an É-er-za {NINDA}ḫar-ši-in ú-da-i]	The cupbearers bring the great cups; the son of the king brings wine into the house and the ḫaršin-bread.
12′	[LUGAL-i pa]-⸢a⸣-i LUGAL-uš QA-TAM ⸢da⸣-[a-i	The king takes it; the king brings it together.
13′	] ⸢É.ŠÀ⸣-na [pé-e-da-i	... into the inner chamber ...(lower confidence: line is broken)

Sources & licences

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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