PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• After this omen, the Sultantepe manuscript no longer follows the omen sequence in the Assur recension. Though the above protasis has similarities in meaning with 32.A.50, that omen is actually a better fit to 32.S.56.
• Though the subsequent omen’s protasis has E₁₁ as its verb, the verb in the above omen’s protasis is unlikely to be E₁₁ because as drawn the sign x does not leave enough room for E₁₁. All that remain of x is a single vertical wedge, on the sign’s right-hand edge.
• If a City 2 (187, 32.53) translates the apodosis as ‘that man will be poor.’ It is unclear how that translation came to be.