PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• The above omen is the first in a sequence about lizards with two heads. While the other recensions do not have two-headed lizards, extraneous body parts are common in omens. For two-tailed lizards, see the first eleven Nineveh omens and 32.N.15 as well as 32.S.60 through 32.S.65 and 32.S.67.
• If a City 2’s (173, n. 2’) note on the grammatical structure of kitpulussunu is misplaced. It should be placed with 32.A.79’ (omen *32.7’ of the Assur tradition in If a City 2).