PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• See 32.A.62 and 32.S.71, which have been used to reconstruct the above omen’s missing parts. The omens, despite orthographic differences, are the same. Among the snake omens (chapter 23) in Šumma ālu, there is an almost identical omen; though, the word order differs slightly (Rinderer 2021, 89, 226–27 omen §23.97):

§23.97

[DIŠ MUŠ] ina É LÚ ina ḫa-ru-ri Ù.TU É BI BIR-aḫ
[If a snake] gives birth in a man’s house in the ḫarūru-part of the mill—that house will be dispersed.

• If a City 2 (193, 32.55’, Aii) generally reads line K 02708+ ii 6’ as above. If a City 2, however, reads NA and Ù as present on the manuscript even though collation reveals the signs must be reconstructed. This carries over to If a City 2’s (171, 32.55’) translation of the above omen, which is as follows:

         If a lizard gives birth in the ḫaruru (part of a millstone)—dispersal [of the house].

Though If a City 2 reads the signs É NA ‘a man’s house’, they are excluded from the translation.