^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} The Hittite Ritual of Hantitassu From The City of Hurma Against Troublesome Years - 1996

As elsewhere in almost the entire Old World, the peoples of Ancient Anatolia, too, endeavored to develop, collect and borrow a multitude of magical practices and rites as an essential part of their religious, spiritual life they deemed magic as revently as their religion, for magic supplied them with protective and defensive means to which in urgent need they could constantly resort. Accordingly, the Hittite state archives at Boğazköy-Hattusa have transmitted to us a plethora of texts on quite a variety of magical forms and their practice from almost every nook of Anatolian Peninsula as well as adjacent regions, which, excluding the festival texts, make up almost 1/8 of the entire Hittite text corpus.

PREFACE
I. Introductory Remarks on the Dichotomy Between Hittite Medicine and Magical Practices.
II. Tradition and Different Compositions of the H?antitaššu­ Ritual.
A = KBo 11.14
B = KBo 13.145
C = KUB 43.57 (+) KBo 18.174
D = KBo 17.104 (+) 2029/ g
III. TransIiteration and Translation of KBo 11.14 with its DupIicates
IV. Philological Commentary.
V. Synopsis and Structural Analysis of the Text
VI. Date of the !jantitaSsu-Ritual
VII. Additional Fragments Belonging to the Ensemble of the H?antitaššu-Ritual
1. KBo 17.104 rev. iii
2.2029 / g
3. KBo 13.145 rev
4. KBo 20.34 (+ KUB 36.111)
5. KUB 57.79 obv.i
6. KUB 58.94
VIII. Index..
A) List of the Treated Words and Names
a)Hittite, Sumerian, Akkadian, Hurrian, Luwian and Other Words
b)Divine Names
c)Personal Names
d)Geographical Names (Turkish and Ancient)
e)Subject Index
B) List of the Fully Edited and Treated Texts and Cited Passages
a) Texts Fully Edited.
b) Cited Texts and Passages
C) List of the Abbreviations
a) Abbreviations Used in the Literature
b) Grammatical and Other Abbreviations