PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• There is not only a semantic connection between the protases of the preceeding 32.A.78’ and the above omen (32.A.79’)—both involve entwined lizards of some sort—but the verbal stem of pitilti patlūma (ptl) ‘date-palm fibers’ ‘plaited (together)’ from 32.A.78’ reoccurs in kitpulūssunu.
• The word kitpulūssunu is formed from the adjective kitpulu ‘entwined’ in the plural with the third person plural ­šunu: kitpulūtu+šunu and used here as an adverb. See CAD K, 467 s.v. kitpulu for a reference to the above omen and GAG §113e ‚Die adverbialen Endungen‘ for the formation of adverbs with the personal pronoun suffixes.

If a City 2’s (173, n. 2’) note on the grammatical structure of kitpulussunu is incorrectly placed with 32.A.74’ (If a City 2’s *32.2 in the Assur tradition) instead of the above omen.

• The logogram EME.DIR ‘lizard’ has been interpreted as a plural because the verb form ŠUB.MEŠ-ni ‘to fall’ requires a plural subject. For a discussion about the plural of lizards, see 32.A.53.
• The omen 32.A.96’ is also about lizards falling from the roof beams.