Omen 32.N.21
Nicole Lundeen, 2021, "Šumma ālu, Omen 32.N.21", Nicla De Zorzi et al., Bestiarium Mesopotamicum, 2018-2021; accessed 10/08/2026 12:07 a.m. at tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-N-21/tei
↓ 32.N.21 
Sm 0710+   13'  [DIŠEME].ŠIDanaUGUNAe-nu-maáš-buŠUB-utLÚBImim-maú-at-tar
Sm 0710+If a City2, p. 191, Ex(7), *32.2013'  [...].ŠIDanaUGUNAe-nu-maaš₂-buŠUB-utLU₂BIDINGIR-šu₂ARḪUŠ-šu₂
K 03730+   20  ⸢DIŠ⸣⸢EME⸣.ŠIDanaUGULÚe-nu-maáš-buŠUB-utLÚBImim-maú-at-tar
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  • DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGULÚe-nu-maáš-buŠUB-utLÚBImim-maú-at-tar
  • šummaṣurāruanamuḫḫiamēlienūmaašbuimqutamēlušūmimmau'attar
  • If a lizard falls onto a man while (he is) sitting- that man's property will increase.
  • If a City2, p. 169, *32.20
    If a lizard falls onto a man when he is sitting, something of that man will increase.
PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY
  • In the above translation, the Akkadian word mimma means ‘whatever’ or ‘any’. In English, the translation ‘something’ or, by extrapolation, ‘property’ seems appropriate.
  • Although the above omen’s reconstructed transliteration in If a City 2 (168, *32.20’) is the same as here, If a City 2 (191, *32.20’, Ex(7)) mistakenly replaces the apodosis of Sm 0710+ 13’ with that of Sm 0710+ 14' in the score

         [DIŠ EME].ŠID ana UGU NA e-nu-ma aš2-bu ŠUB-ut LU2 BI DINGIR-šu2 ARḪUŠ-šu2

This erroneous replacement partially explains the remark in If a City 2 (168, n. 20’) that “Ex(4) has the variant apodosis DINGIR-šu2 ARḪUŠ-šu2, ‘his god will have mercy on him.’” This is an immaterial comment as Ex(4) refers to the manuscript consisting of two non-physically-joining fragments K 90572+ and K 12180+. That manuscript does not preserve any part of the above omen (32.N.21). The intended manuscript must be Sm 0710+, which, as already noted, does not have a variant apodosis.