PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• The above omen has the same protasis as 32.S.24. The apodoses have thematic similarities as well, but where the Assur omen’s apodosis reads KASKAL SÙ-te TE-a šá […], the Sultantepe omen’s apodosis reads šá KASKAL ˹GIG˺ TE-šú ‘illness will afflict one who is on a journey’. Just as If a City 2 (179, n. 88’) observes, it is difficult to reconcile the signs between the two omens. Perhaps collation of the Sultantepe manuscript would allow for that omen to be read more similarly to the above Assur omen.
• The final five signs of the apodosis remain untranslated in If a City 2 (179, *32.88’)

         If a lizard climbs onto a man’s table and lies down, … one who is on a journey.

This can be explained by If a City 2’s (199, *32.88 C r.27’) reading of the sign SUD (above: SÙ) as MUŠ. The two signs resemble each other. We follow KAL 1 (16-17 Vs. 27 A27) in reading SÙ.