Omen 32.N.45'
Nicole Lundeen, 2021, "Šumma ālu, Omen 32.N.45", 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-45-/tei
↓ 32.N.45' 
K 03730+   30  DIŠEME.ŠIDSA₅ina⸢É⸣N[AGÁL⸣-⸢ši⸣ÉBINÍG.TUKTUK{ŠI}-ši
K 03730+If a City2, p. 193, Ex(1)DIŠEME.ŠIDSA₄inaE₂[…-š]iE₂BINIG₂.TUKTUK!( ši)-ši
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  • DIŠEME.ŠIDSA₅inaÉN[AGÁL]-šiÉBINÍG.TUKTUK-ši
  • If a City2, p. 170
    DIŠEME.ŠIDSA₅inaE₂[NAGÁL-š]iE₂BINIG₂.TUKTUK!-ši
  • If a City2, p. 171
    If [there i]s a red lizard in [a man's] house, that house will acquire wealth.
  • šummaṣurārusāmuinabīta[mēliittab]šibītušūmašrêirašši
  • If [there i]s a red lizard in a m[an's] house- that house will have riches.
PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY
  • We reconstruct the sign GÁL in the break on K 03730+ 30 from the previous two omens 32.N.43’ and 32.N.44’; the three form a triad of omens about lizards of various colors on manuscript K 03730+ 28-30.
  • Collation of K 03730+ confirms the reading SA5 ‘red’. There is a typographic error in If a City 2 (193, 32.45’) in which the fourth sign is written SA4 instead of SA5. The omen is reconstructed and translated in If a City 2 (170–71, 32.45’) as above.

Collation also shows faint traces of a broken NA at the beginning of the break after the first É.

  • The apodosis’s verb is written as ŠI, but we follow If a City 2 and interpret this as a scribal mistake for TUK ‘to have’.