PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• The manuscript’s left-hand side is broken away at this point. Comparing the line to other lines where both the left and right-hand edges are preserved, the above omen appears to begin in the middle of line VAT 10167 r. 60’. Without a duplicate manuscript or further joins, it is impossible to say whether the beginning of the line (the part broken away) contained a separate omen or a large amount of blank space.
• As noted in If a City 2 (176, n. 55’), the referent of MIN is uncertain. It may be the ‘entwined lizards’ of earlier omens as If a City 2 suggests.
• The sign MU, of GÙ-mu ‘noise’, is written on the manuscript’s edge and is not visible on the available photograph. The reading is from KAL 1 (16-17, Rs. 60’ A60’). If a City 2 (197, *32.55’ C60’), instead, reads ugu mu

         […] x MIN ša₂ a-gap-pi GAR-nu ina E₂ NA it-ta-nap-ra-šu₂ ugu mu GAL2-šu₂ E₂ BI BIR

How to interpret the signs ugu mu is unclear; If a City 2 (177, *32.55’) tentatively translates them as ‘anger’

[If lizards] ditto that have wings fly about in the man’s house, there will be anger(?); that house will be dispersed.

As lizards making noises are not uncommon in omen protases (see the commentary at 32.N.47’), we follow KAL 1 (16-17, Rs. 60’ A60’) and read GÙ-mu.