If a lizard falls in front of a man- the downfall of his legal adversary (will occur).
Var. (K 09057.2 and Sm 0710)
[DIŠEME.ŠIDanaIGINAŠUB-u]tŠUB-atENINIM-šú
[šummaṣurārūanapānamēliimqu]tmaqātbēlamātišu
[If a lizard fal]ls [in front of a man]- the downfall of his legal adversary (will occur).
Var. (K 09057.2 and Sm 0710+)
If a City2, p. 168, *32.21'
DIŠEME.ŠIDanaIGINAŠUB-utŠUB-ti₅ENKA-šu₂
PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY
See also the separate edition of Sm 0710+ as the omen on line 10’ is part of a triad of omens on that manuscript.
Collation of K 03730+ 21 reveals traces of around four or five erased signs after ŠUB-ut. Also after the line’s final sign -šú, there is an errant head of a wedge. Perhaps it is another erasure as the apodosis is otherwise complete. Collation also confirms the reading ŠUB-tì instead of ŠUB-ti5, as read by If a City 2 (191, *32.21’ ,Ex(1)).
In K 12180+ i 7’, the first sign has been tentatively read as -a]t?. If a City 2 (191, *32.21’, Ex(4)2 6’) leaves the sign as an uninterpreted x. There is one visible vertical wedge making the reading -tì from K 03730+ 21 impossible. Manuscript Sm 0710+ 10’ has ŠUB-at, which seems plausible here.
For a discussion on the repetition of this particular protasis with varying apodoses—though all the apodoses relate to overcoming adversaries—see the discussions at 32.A.5.
After the above omen, there is a gap in the omen sequence. The subsequent omen starts with the ‘standard’ manuscript for the Nineveh recension, K 02708+.
