PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• The above omen is fragmentary. We interpret the apodosis as ZI.GA È-šú ‘losses will occur for him’, which occurs in a few other lizard omens. The reading È however is conjecture. The hand copy only shows the heads of two wedges. The remnants fit more closely with the reading È than with ÌR; ZI.GA ÌR ù GÉME ‘a loss of male and female slaves (will occur)’ being another common apodosis. Nevertheless, without collation of the original manuscript, any reading includes a certain amount of speculation.