Chapter 32

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SU 1952, 242 <ul> <li>The G stem plural stative of patālu and the phonetic complement on the verb &Scaron;UB indicate that EME.&Scaron;ID should be interpreted as a plural (see <a href="https://tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-A-53/tei">32.A.53</a> for commentary on interpreting EME.&Scaron;ID as a plural). See also the pertinent commentary at <a href="https://tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-A-78-/tei">32.A.78’</a>, whose protasis also involves lizards plaited together like date-palm fibers walking about a man’s house. The commentary there also addresses If a City 2’s use of the word ‘knot’ in its translation of both the Assur and the above omen.</li> <li>The apodosis’s miqitti has several meanings, all of them negative. See CAD M/2, 100–102 s.v. miqittu for details. It can mean ‘downfall’ as read above, or ‘epidemic’ or ‘death’ as If a City 2 (189, 32.66) seems to have interpreted it.</li> </ul> Using downfall in the apodosis mirrors the lizards’ fall in the protasis. Additionally the downfall of a legal adversary is a common lizard apodosis and might be suggested as a reconstruction. While &Scaron;UB-at is a more common way to write ‘downfall’, <a href="https://tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-N-22/tei">32.N.22</a> has an example of downfall written as &Scaron;UB-tì. DIŠEME.ŠIDki-maŠU.SARpat-lu-maTA{giš}GIŠIMMARŠUB-tú-niŠUB-ti…(ruling)DIŠEME.ŠIDki-maŠU.SARpat-lu-maTA{giš}GIŠIMMARŠUB-tú-niŠUB-ti…DIŠEME.ŠIDki-maŠU.SARpat-lu-maTAGIŠ.GIŠIMMARŠUB-tu2-niŠUB-ti…šummaṣurārûkīmapitiltipatlūmaištugišimmariimqutūnimiqitti…downfal[l of …]If lizards are plaited together like date palm fibers, and they fall from a date palm treeIf lizards tied as if in a knot fall down from a date palm tree, decease of […]