PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• The above omen’s protasis has been reconstructed from 32.A.44 as the Sultantepe omen sequence continues to follow that of Assur’s, and the remnants drawn on the hand copy allow for such a reading. The Assur omen, however, combines the above omen’s protasis with that of 32.S.47. Note that the apodoses of 32.S.46 and 32.S.47 as well as that of 32.A.44 all translate as ‘that man will be vexed’. The above omen, however, varies in orthography. The others write ina-ziq.

• The commentary at 32.N.49' includes a list of omens where a lizard falls into beer or water (vessels). See the commentary at 32.A.3 for a discussion of the apodosis’s verb nazāqu and its associated emotions.