PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• The hand copy varies slightly from the reading of the above omen in If a City 2 (182, 32.1). Before the sign NA, there are traces of a vertical wedge within the damaged section. The sign before the very broken NA is unlikely to be UGU as the next line SU 1952, 242 2 (32.S.2) has UGU NA. There are several omens in the recensions from Assur and Nineveh in which lizards fall in front of (IGI) or behind (EGIR) a man; one of those seems likely for the above omen as well. Collation of the original manuscript would be necessary to determine the reading, if it is possible at all.