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What does the Hurrian text of h.6 say?

Asked 31 Oct 2026 by ·1 answer·0·0 following
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Hurrian is an agglutinative language known mainly from the Mittani letter and the Hittite-Hurrian bilinguals from Boğazköy, and its vocabulary is thin, so a short hymn in a local Ugarit dialect with gaps cannot be rendered word for word⁠[1]. Thiel in 1977 and Krispijn in 2002 agree that it concerns offerings to Nikkal and reconciliation with the gods, and differ in detail; Krispijn calls his translation provisional⁠[2]⁠[3].

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Obtain Thiel 1977 and Krispijn 2002 and record where their translations of h.6 diverge line by line.
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History

  1. Hans-Jochen Thiel: two independent interpretations of the Hurrian text, Thiel's of 1977 and Krispijn's of 2002, agree that it is a hymn…For: A hymn of offering to Nikkal (Thiel, Krispijn)
  2. Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin: two independent interpretations of the Hurrian text, Thiel's of 1977 and Krispijn's of 2002, agree that it is a hymn…For: A hymn of offering to Nikkal (Thiel, Krispijn)
  3. Theo J. H. Krispijn: two independent interpretations of the Hurrian text, Thiel's of 1977 and Krispijn's of 2002, agree that it is a hymn…For: A hymn of offering to Nikkal (Thiel, Krispijn)
  4. Ilse Wegner: two independent interpretations of the Hurrian text, Thiel's of 1977 and Krispijn's of 2002, agree that it is a hymn…For: A hymn of offering to Nikkal (Thiel, Krispijn)
  5. Session 1: raised the question, proposed one answer and found one result bearing on its answers
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