Omen 32.A.8
Nicole Lundeen, 2021, "Šumma ālu, Omen 32.A.8", Nicla De Zorzi et al., Bestiarium Mesopotamicum, 2018-2021; accessed 10/08/2026 12:08 a.m. at tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-A-8/tei
↓ 32.A.8 
VAT 10167Vs.   8  [DIŠEME.DIRa-naEGIR?N]AŠUB-uta-nadi-ni-šui-ger-ru-šu
VAT 10167KAL 1 16-17 A[DIŠEME.DIRa-naxN]AŠUB-uta-nadi-ni-šui-ger-ru-šu
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  • [DIŠEME.DIRa-naEGIR?N]AŠUB-uta-nadi-ni-šui-ger-ru-šu
  • [šummaṣurāruana…a]mēliimqutanadīnišuigerrūšu
  • [If a lizard] falls [behind? a m]an- (some)one will file a lawsuit against him.
  • If a City2, 179, *32.69'
    [If a lizard] falls [behind a man], they will file a lawsuit against him.
  • KAL 1 16-17, 71 Vs. 8
    [Wenn eine Eidechse auf … eines Ma]nnes fällt: Man wir ihn verklagen.
PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY
  • We reconstruct the protasis from 32.N.29’. See the commentary there on reconstructing where the lizard falls in relation to the man.

If a City 2 (178-79, *32.69’) reconstructs and translates the omen as above, with minor changes in breaks. The more recent edition KAL 1 (16-17 Vs. 8 A8), while otherwise reconstructing and translating as above, does not reconstruct where the lizard falls in relation to the man. We follow If a City 2 as there is evidence of a sequence of omens about lizards falling behind a man in the Nineveh recension, and the subsequent omens 32.A.9 and 32.A.10 seem to indicate such a sequence also exists here in the Assur recension.

  • Note also 32.A.34, which is thematically similar to the above 32.A.8. In 32.A.34’s protasis, the lizard falls onto a man already engaged in a lawsuit. The result is favorable.