Omen 32.S.6
Nicole Lundeen, 2021, "Šumma ālu, Omen 32.S.6", Nicla De Zorzi et al., Bestiarium Mesopotamicum, 2018-2021; accessed 10/08/2026 12:08 a.m. at tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-S-6/tei
↓ 32.S.6 
SU 1952, 242   6  [DIŠ]EME.ŠID⸢ana⸣[EGI]R⸢NA⸣⸢ŠUB⸣-ut-⸢ma⸣[TAG]-supí-is-latḪULIGI-[mar]
Copy Text
  • [DIŠ]EME.ŠIDana[EGI]RNAŠUB-ut-ma[TAG]-supí-is-latḪULIGI-[mar]
  • If a City2, p. 182
    [DIŠ]EME.ŠIDana[EGI]RNAŠUB-ut-ma[TAG]-supi₂-is-latḪULIGI
  • [šumma]ṣurāruana[ark]atamēliimqutma[ilpus]supislātlumniim[mar]
  • [If] a lizard falls [beh]ind a man and [touches] him- he will experie[nce] a negative twist of fate.
  • If a City2, p. 183
    [If] a lizard falls [beh]ind a man and strikes him, he will experience an evil incident.
PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY
  • For the interpretation of pí-is-lat ḪUL ‘negative twist of fate’ and the phonetical associations between the protasis and apodosis, see the discussion at 32.N.30’. The two omens appear to be the same. See also 32.A.10; although similar, the subject of the Assur omen’s apodosis is KALAG.GA-su ‘his fortress’ instead of ‘he’ (referring to the man in the protasis).
  • The hand copy shows a break after IGI and plenty of room to reconstruct the phonetic complement -mar. It has therefore been added to our reconstruction. The reading EME.SID in If a City 2 (182, 32.6) is surely just a typographic error for EME.ŠID.