Chapter 32

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K 03730+ K 06912+ <ul> <li>The apodosis’s verb is broken away on both manuscripts. K 03730+ 4 preserves a broken RA on the manuscript’s righthand edge. Although a large piece of the manuscript is missing between ZAG ˹GÍD˺.[DA and the broken RA, collation confirms both the sign’s reading and its placement in line K 03730+ 4. Though If a City 2 includes RA in its reading of K 03730+ 4 (190, *32.2’, Ex(1)4), it does not incorporate the broken sign into the above omen (166, *32.2’).</li> </ul> We suggest reconstructing GUR ‘to turn back’ in the break and interpreting the broken RA as a phonetic complement. Thus reconstructed, the apodosis is a common and favorable prognosis indicating the god will ‘resume a favorable attitude’ toward the person. See CAD T, 255 s.v. târu 2d; CAD Z, 85 s.v. zenû a 3’ for other examples. <ol> <li> <ol> <li>The suggested reconstruction is supported by the above omen’s similarities in meaning and structure to <a href="https://tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-S-61/tei">32.S.61</a>.</li> </ol> </li> </ol> [If] in a man’s house [a lizar]d with two tails is seen; its right t[ail] is long – (formerly) angered gods will return to the man’s house. [DI&Scaron; EME.&Scaron;I]D &scaron;á 2 KUN.ME&Scaron;-&scaron;á K[UN]-sà &scaron;á ZAG GÍD.DA ina É NA IGI DINGIR.ME&Scaron; zi-nu-tu4 ana É NA GUR.ME&Scaron;-ni <ol> <li> <ol start="2"> <li>Note the CAD &Scaron;/1, 15 s.v. &scaron;absu, commenting on K 06912+ 6, reads the apodosis as follows:</li> </ol> </li> </ol>                       [DING]IR &Scaron;À.DIB.BA ana amēli itâr Collation shows K 06912+ 6 breaks off after ana LÚ, without any trace of GUR itâr. Nevertheless the CAD’s suggestion is probably correct. <ul> <li> <ol start="3"> <li>The logogram &Scaron;À.DIB.BA is attested in commentary and lexical lists for &scaron;absu, zenû, and kamlu, all meaning ‘angry, wrathful’ (CAD Z, 84 s.v. zenû; CAD &Scaron;/1, 4 s.v. &scaron;abāsu; CAD K p. 124 s.v. kamlu). We read zenû because of <a href="https://tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-S-61/tei">32.S.61</a>, which has the phonetic reading zi-nu-tu4. If a City 2 (167, *32.2’) interprets DINGIR &Scaron;À.DIB.BA as a single word meaning ‘divine wrath’, kimiltu in Akkadian. This and If a City 2’s suggestion to reconstruct &Scaron;UB.ME&Scaron; as the apodosis’s verb likely come from <a href="https://tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-S-62/tei">32.S.62</a>, where DI[NGIR.&Scaron;]À.DIB.BA ana É NA &Scaron;UB.ME&Scaron; is the first of that omen’s multiple apodoses. Kimiltu is a legitimate reading for DINGIR.&Scaron;À.DIB.BA, but it does not fit well with the new reading GUR-ra as the above omen’s final verb. Also <a href="https://tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-S-62/tei">32.S.62</a> is not as close a match for the above omen (32.N.2) as <a href="https://tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-S-61/tei">32.S.61</a> is. Given the similarities between above omen and <a href="https://tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-S-61/tei">32.S.61</a>, it seems more appropriate to interpret the above signs as DINGIR &Scaron;À.DIB.BA with the meaning ‘an angry god’.</li> </ol> </li> <li>Both the right and left-hand edges of K 06912+ are broken, but it does not seem that much is missing. The right-hand side has room for a few signs at the most; while the left-hand side has a bit more room, it is not large. </li> <li>An indentation has been reconstructed at the beginning of K 06912+ 6. Indentations are common when omens carry over onto multiple lines. Comparisons with this manuscript’s other omens indicate that there is room for a few signs on the left-hand side, but as the omen is logically complete with the reconstruction of NA IGI in line 5, an indentation seems probable.</li> <li>In K 06912+ 5, we reconstruct [NA IGI] at the end of the protasis as has been done in If a City 2 (166, *32.2’). There is enough room at the edge of the manuscript for the reconstruction, and it is logical given that the proceeding omen uses the verb IGI in the protasis.</li> <li>Collation of both manuscripts confirms the reading KUN.ME&Scaron;-&scaron;á, instead of If a City 2’s (166, *32.2’) KUN.ME&Scaron;-&scaron;u2.</li> </ul>DIŠDIŠ…EME.ŠIDEME.ŠIDEME.ŠIDšášáša2MINMIN2KUN.MEŠ-šáKUN.MEŠ-šáKUN.MEŠ-ša2uuušášáša2ZAGZAGZAGGÍD.DAGÍD.DAGID2.DA…inainaGUR-raGUR-ra…ÉE2NA…IGI(indent)DINGIR…ŠÀ.DIB.BADINGIR.ŠÀ.DIB.BAanaanaLÚLU2DIŠEME.ŠIDšáMINKUN.MEŠ-šáušáZAGGÍD.DAinaÉNAIGIDINGIRŠÀ.DIB.BAanaLÚGUR-raDIŠEME.ŠIDša22KUN.MEŠ-šu2uša2ZAGGID2.DAinaE2NAIGIDINGIR.ŠA3.DIB.BAanaLU2ŠUB.MEŠšummaṣurīrittuša2zibbātušaušaimittiarkatinabītamēliinnamiriluzenûanaamēliiturraa (formerly) angry [g]od [will retur]n toward the man.If in a [man’s] house a lizard with two tails [is seen] and the right one is longIf a lizard that has two tails and the right one is long is seen in a man's house, divine wrath will [repeatedly befall] that man.