Omen 32.S.17
Nicole Lundeen, 2021, "Šumma ālu, Omen 32.S.17", Nicla De Zorzi et al., Bestiarium Mesopotamicum, 2018-2021; accessed 10/08/2026 12:08 a.m. at tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-S-17/tei
↓ 32.S.17 
SU 1952, 242   17  [DIŠEME.ŠIDanaU]GU(erasure)NAŠUB-⸢ut⸣⸢x⸣⸢ ú⸣? mu{?}⸢ 'a⸣? udšu-a-tu[₄x]
Copy Text
  • [DIŠEME.ŠIDanaU]GUNAŠUB-utx ú{?} mu{?} 'a{?} udšu-a-tu[₄x]
  • If a City2, p. 184
    [DIŠEME.ŠIDanaU]GU(erasure)NAŠUB-utx u2 mu 'a udšu-a-tu₄[…]
  • [šummaṣurāruanamu]ḫḫiamēliimqut……………šuāt[u…]
  • [If a lizard] falls [on]to a man’s- … tha[t …]
PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY
  • The above omen is reconstructed in If a City 2 (184, 32.17) as

         [DIŠ EME.ŠID ana U]GU (erasure) NA ŠUB-ut x u2 x mu ’a ud šu-a-tu4 […]

From the hand copy, what If a City 2 reads as x between ú and mu appears to be just one of the horizontal wedges on the right-hand edge of the sign ú.

The hand copy indicates the manuscript is damaged in this section and as the signs are difficult to interpret as drawn , collation would be necessary to help make sense of the omen.

Comparing SU 1952, 242 17 to other lines on the manuscript’s hand copy, there is room for at least one sign after the sign read as -tu4.