Omen 32.N.32'
Nicole Lundeen, 2021, "Šumma ālu, Omen 32.N.32", Nicla De Zorzi et al., Bestiarium Mesopotamicum, 2018-2021; accessed 10/08/2026 12:09 a.m. at tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-N-32-/tei
↓ 32.N.32' 
Sm 0710+   17'  [DIŠEM]E.ŠIDanaUGUgišNÁNAE₁₁NABIḪA.LAGU₇
Sm 0710+If a City2, p. 192, Ex(7)[…EM]E.ŠIDanaUGUGIŠ.NA₂E₁₁NABIḪA.LAKU₂
K 02708+i   10'  ⸢DIŠ⸣⸢EME⸣.DIRanaUGUgišNÁNAE₁₁NABI⸢ḪA⸣.⸢LA⸣⸢GU₇⸣
K 02708+If a City2, p. 192, ADIŠEME.DIRanaUGUGIŠ.NA₂E₁₁NABIḪA.[...]
K 03730+   22  DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGUgišNÁNAE₁₁LÚBIḪA.LAGU₇
K 03730+If a City2, p. 192, Ex(1)DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGUGIŠ.NA₂E₁₁LU₂BIḪA.LAKU₂
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  • DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGUgišNÁNAE₁₁NABIḪA.LAGU₇
  • If a City2, p. 168
    DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGUGIŠ.NA₂E₁₁LU₂BIḪA.LAKU₂
  • šummaṣurāruanamuḫḫierešamēliīliamēlušūzittaikkal
  • If a lizard climbs onto a man's bed- that man will consume a share.
  • If a City2, p. 169
    If a lizard climbs onto a man's bed, that man will enjoy a share.
PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY
  • See also 32.A.30, which has the same protasis but a different apodosis.
  • Collation of all the manuscripts confirms the reading NA between gišNÁ and E11. This sign is omitted from If a City 2’s reconstructed transliteration (168, 32.32’) of the above omen and from all the manuscripts in the omen’s score (If a City 2, 192, 32.32’, A i 10’, Ex(1)22, and Ex(7)17’).

Further, collation confirms that there are two, extremely broken, but visible, signs after ḪA at the end of line K 02708+ i 10’. The surface of the manuscript has broken off, but the signs’ traces allow for a reading of ˹ḪA˺.˹LA˺ ˹GU7˺.

  • The slight variations in the manuscripts are negligible. The term for lizards can be written either as EME.DIR or EME.ŠID. Similarly in the Neo-Assyrian period, NA or LÚ could be used interchangeably to mean ‘man’.
  • See the separate edition of K 0957.2 as line K 0957.2 i 3’, though fragmentary, may partially preserve the above omen.