Omen 32.S.22
Nicole Lundeen, 2021, "Šumma ālu, Omen 32.S.22", 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-22/tei
↓ 32.S.22 
SU 1952, 242   22  [DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUG]UGIŠBAN[ŠUR]NA⸢ŠUB⸣-⸢ut⸣⸢x⸣⸢x⸣⸢ina⸣-an-ziq
Copy Text
  • [DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUG]UGIŠBAN[ŠUR]NAŠUB-utxxina-an-ziq
  • If a City2, p. 184
    [DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUG]UGIŠ.BANŠURNAŠUB-utina-an-ziq
  • [šummaṣurāruanamuḫ]ḫipaš[šūr]amēliimqut……inanziq
  • [If a lizard] falls [on]to a man's tab[le]- … he will be vexed.
  • If a City2, p. 185
    [If a lizard] falls [on]to a man's table, he will have trouble.
PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY
  • See 32.A.25; the two omens are very similar. The Assur omen’s apodosis, however, only reads ina-[an-ziq] ‘he will be ve[xed]’, without the damage present in the Sultantepe omen (see below).
  • The hand copy indicates traces of possibly two signs in the space between ŠUB-ut and ina­-an-­ziq. The traces show one horizontal wedge, similar to ina, followed by a damaged BAD. Based on typical omen syntax and the variations of the apodosis, the reading NA BI ‘that man’ seems probable. While the traces allow for BI, they do not, however, fit well with the reading NA. Collation of the original manuscript would be necessary to attempt a reading.
  • If a City 2 (184, 32.22) omits the traces preceding the final verb.
  • See the commentary at 32.A.3 for a discussion on the apodosis’s verb nazāqu and its associated emotions.