PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• The reconstruction of ša K[I.NE] aš-bu ‘that is sitting in a br[azier]’ in the protasis is somewhat speculative. The KI is broken and, as drawn, appears identical to d[i in 32.S.35’s ša d[i-na]. We follow If a City 2 (184, 32.36), however, and read K[I.NE] as the Sultantepe omens closely mirror the sequence in the Assur recension. After 32.A.34 (which corresponds with the preceding 32.S.35), the subsequent Assur omens relate to fire and ovens. While the above omen does not have an identical match among the Assur omens, see 32.A.35. The Assur omen combines the protasis of the following omen, 32.S.37, with the above omen’s apodosis.