Remarks on the Formation and Textual Tradition of the Hittite AN.TAḪ.ŜUM Festival: the Cases of CTH 615, 616 and 618
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Niccolò Galmarini
Abstract
The rich but often fragmentary corpus of rituals related to the great Hittite an.taḫ.šum festival demonstrates not only its long duration and articulated structure, but also its complex textual tradition.The aim of this contribution is to clarify the process through which the festival formed and evolved throughout Hittite history assuming the well-known composite and heterogeneous form.With this purpose in mind, I have selected some sections of the festival which, in showing a relation to autonomous local or foreign cults, are more useful in defining the main features of their process of inclusion and assimilation in the great festival.Three components of the festival, CTH 615, 616 and 618, are analysed in their synchronic (different versions, comparison with the outline tablets) and diachronic aspects (the possible original independence of cults and the age of their introduction into the festival program). Every component shows specific features regarding its cultic layer, its original autonomy and the modalities of its introduction into the festival. Among the analogies found are the existence of different versions of each festival day and the time when the festival nucleus seems to have been formed, that is, the beginning of the Empire Period, as well as the continuity of the textual tradition.
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- Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Einleitung: „Schnittpunkt Levante“ – Kulturelle Interaktionen während der Bronze- und Eisenzeit
- Interregional Contacts in the Biqāẚ Valley from a Beetle’s Point of View: Egyptian and Egyptianising Scarabs at Bronze Age Kāmid al-Lōz (Kumidi)
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