PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• The above omen commences a sequence of omens about lizards falling into vessels holding liquids.
• The omen 32.A.43 has been used to reconstruct 32.S.45’s protasis. Whereas the above omen makes the connection between the protasis and apodosis explicit (ṭābātu ‘vinegar’ and ṭābatu ‘goodness’) the connection is less explicit in the Assur omen, whose apodosis reads qīšti ili ibbaššīšu ‘a divine gift will be available to him.’ See the lengthy commentary at the Assur omen. A further thematically linked omen can be found on the Assur manuscript VAT 9906 ii 8.