Omen 32.S.20
Nicole Lundeen, 2021, "Šumma ālu, Omen 32.S.20", 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-20/tei
↓ 32.S.20 
SU 1952, 242   20  [DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUG]UgišGU.[ZAN]A⸢E₁₁⸣NABIis-sal-⸢la⸣-⸢a'⸣{copy: MUNUS}
Copy Text
  • [DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUG]UgišGU.[ZAN]AE₁₁NABIis-sal-la-a'
  • [šummaṣurāruanamu]ḫḫikus[sia]mēliīliamēlušūissalla'
  • [If a lizard] climbs [on]to a [m]an's sto[ol]- that man will be chronically ill.
  • If a City2, p. 185
    [If a lizard] climbs [on]to a ma[n's ch]air, he will be infected.
PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY
  • The above omen’s counterpart in the Assur recension is 32.A.22. While the Assur omen does not include NA BI ‘that man’ in the apodosis, the two omens are otherwise the same.
  • For the interpretation of the apodosis’s verb, issalla’, as ‘he will fall chronically ill’, see the commentary at 32.A.22. 
  • The final sign of SU 1952, 242 20 must be -a’. The sign indicated on the hand copy, however, more closely resembles MUNUS. As the hand copy shows this part of the tablet is damaged, it is plausible that this is a mistake on the part of the modern copyist.

Further the hand copy confirms the reading -sal (for the second sign in the final verb). The sign is read in If a City 2 (184, 32.20) as -sa. If a City 2 otherwise reads the omen as above.