Chapter 32
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SU 1952, 242
SU 1951, 079+
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<li>The above omen is reconstructed in <em>If a City </em>2 (184, 32.17) as</li>
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<p style="margin-left:48px"> [DIŠ EME.ŠID <em>ana </em>U]GU (erasure) NA ŠUB-<em>ut </em>x u<sub>2</sub> x mu ’a ud <em>šu-a-tu<sub>4</sub> </em>[…]</p>
<p style="margin-left:48px">From the hand copy, what <em>If a City </em>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.</p>
<p style="margin-left:48px">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.</p>
<p style="margin-left:48px">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 -<em>tu</em><sub>4</sub>.</p>DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGU(erasure)NAŠUB-utx#ú{?}#mu{?}#'a{?}#udšu-a-tu4xDIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGUNAŠUB-utx#ú{?}#mu{?}#'a{?}#udšu-a-tu4xDIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGU(erasure)NAŠUB-utx#u2x#mu#'a#udšu-a-tu4…šummaṣurāruanamuḫḫiamēliimqut……………šuātu…… tha[t …][If a lizard] falls [on]to a man’s