Omen 32.S.23
Nicole Lundeen, 2021, "Šumma ālu, Omen 32.S.23", 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-23/tei
↓ 32.S.23 
SU 1952, 242   23  [DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGU]gišBA[NŠUR]NAanadug⸢kal⸣-⸢li⸣ŠUB-ut⸢GIG⸣KI!DAB-su
Copy Text
  • [DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGU]gišBA[NŠUR]NAanadugkal-liŠUB-utGIGDAB-su
  • If a City2, p. 184
    [DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGU]GIŠ.BA[NŠUR]NAanaDUG kal-liŠUB-utGIGxDIB-su
  • [šummaṣurāruanamuḫḫi]pa[ššūr]amēlianakalliimqutmarṣuiṣabbassu
  • [If a lizard] falls into a bowl [on] a man's ta[ble]- illness will afflict him.
  • If a City2, p. 185
    [If a lizard] falls [onto a man's] table into a bowl, sickness will afflict him.
PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY
  • The hand copy indicates damage to the manuscript around the sign GIG. The sign GIG, as drawn on the hand copy, is missing a part on the right, similar to ḪI. The hand copy also indicates an extraneous and damaged sign between GIG and DAB-­su. We suggest the extraneous sign is likely the missing part of GIG and that the sign may have been written over an erased KI. We therefore read ˹GIG˺ <<KI!>>. Collation is necessary to confirm the suggestion.

If a City 2 (184, 32.23 and n. 23) does not indicate GIG is broken in its reconstruction of the above omen and reads KI as x, also suggesting it might be an erasure.

  • The omens 32.S.23 and 32.A.26 are similar, and the Sultantepe omen has been used to reconstruct the Assur omen’s fragmentary apodosis. The Assur omen’s protasis has been emended as it elides kal from kalli.