PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• The break after E₁₁ ‘to climb’ is large enough to encompass several signs, which allows for the possibility that the lizard performs another action beyond climbing onto a man in the protasis. Note, however, that manuscript K 03730+ has several lines with large blank spaces; it is therefore plausible that the protasis ends with E₁₁. If a City 2 interprets this omen’s protasis as ending after E₁₁, but otherwise reads the omen as above. See (191, *32.16’, Ex(1)) for If a City 2’s reading of the line, (166, *32.16’) for the reconstruction, and (167, *32.16’) for the translation.
• Although the sign at the beginning of the break is fragmentary, making the reading E11 somewhat speculative, the reading is supported as the traces fit with E₁₁ and the verb in the protasis of the subsequent omen 32.N.18 is also E₁₁.