PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• The above omen and the subsequent, 32.N.52’, are both present on the manuscripts K 02708+ and K 03730+, but the sequence of the two omens are transposed. We follow the sequence on K 02708+ as it preserves the standard sequence of omens. See also the commentary at 32.N.52’.
• The logogram DAM.TAB.BA can be normalized in Akkadian as either tappātu or ṣerretu, both mean ‘secondary wife’ (De Zorzi forthcoming). See also CAD Ṣ, 138 s.v. ṣerru B and CAD T, 181 s.v. tappātu.
• The verb in the protasis of this omen, IGI ‘to see’, is mistakenly translated as a passive in If a City 2 (171, 32.51’). If a City 2 also mistakeny reads DAM.TAB.BA as DAM ‘husband’ and TAB.BA ‘friend’.

If a lizard carrying a snake is seen by woman, that woman will be married to the husband of a friend.

• Although line K 03730+ 37 is read as above in If a City 2’s (193, 32.51’, Ex(1)) score, If a City 2’s (170, 32.51’) reconstructed transliteration of the above omen is as follows

         DIŠ EME.ŠID MUŠ na-ši-ma MUNUS IGI MUNUS BI KI DAM TAB.BA in-na-ḫaz

Collation confirms the reading in-na-ḫa-az instead of in-na-ḫaz.