Chapter 32

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SU 1952, 242 <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> </ul>r.11DIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGUNAxNABIú-lab-barDIŠEME.ŠIDanaUGUNAxNABIú-lab-baršummaṣurāruanamuḫḫiamēli…amēlušūulabbarthat man will live a long time.[If a lizard] … onto a m[an][If a lizard …] onto a m[an], that man will become poor.