Saeculum: Gedenkschrift fur Heinrich Otten anlasslich seines 100. Geburtstags.

• Author: Beal, Richard H.
• Position: Book review

Saeculum: Gedenkschrift fur Heinrich Otten anlasslich seines 100. Geburtstags. Edited by ANDREAS MULLER-KARPE; ELISABETH RIEKEN; and WALTER SOMMERFELD. Studien zu den Bogazkoy, Texten, vol. 58. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2015. Pp. xi + 316, illus. [euro]84

The contents of this memorial volume for Heinrich Otten are varied. Alfonso Archi, in "How the Anitta Text Reached Hattusa," presents more arguments for the early writing of Hittite.

Gary Beckman edits the fragmentary KUB 20.1 and its duplicates, a festival with an interesting cast of characters. In addition to the king, there is an "Old Woman," a SANGA-priest in conjunction with a "Mother-of-the-God" priestess and elsewhere more curiously with an [pounds sterling]7VTt/-priestess. The Stormgod muwanu makes an appearance. Sausga of the Field is frequently mentioned alongside the deity Hurdumana, unique to this text. There is also Sausga of Nineveh and Ishara, who may or may not be the same as Sausga of the Field. Unusually for a Kizzuwatna-type ritual, Telipinu and his hammer are mentioned, and unusually for any Hittite ritual, the Sea-god, in the form of a wooden statue, receives offerings.

Alexandra Daues and Elisabeth Rieken, in "Das Gebet der Gassuliyawiya: Struktur und Performanz," give a new translation of the text to show that it is carefully structured and is partway between a prayer and a substitution ritual.

Detlev Groddek adds two more small fragments to the ritual CTH 447.

Suzanne Herbordt publishes a bronze oval scraper, with a notch opposite its hafting-tang, found in Chamber 2 of the Sudburg of Hattusa. It is the first Hittite example of the type found widely throughout the eastern Mediterranean in the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries BCE. The presence of the notch probably indicates that it was used for something other than scraping hides to make leather.

Harry Hoffner writes about fish, but includes a discussion of the phrase [KU.sub.6] IN A hantiyara, which, contra V. Haas, does not mean "turtle," and hantiyarahha-.

Manfred Hutter examines all the references to the goddess Haristassi and the haristani-mom. He notes that this goddess is often associated with the grandmother goddess Hannahanna and the fate-goddesses, and is often worshipped by the queen in what appear to him to be private festivals, at the end of a day, in the bedchamber (E.SA). The haristani-room, he notes, is equivalent to Akk. rugbu "upper room, loft" and is written in hieroglyphs as DOMUS.SUPER...