PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

• See the commentary at 32.A.80. The Assur omen and the above resemble each other, but instead of the lizard falling into a dugŠAB Ì ‘an oil bowl’, as above, the lizard falls into a DUG GIŠ.Ì.MEŠ ‘sesame-oil pot’ in the Assur omen. The apodoses have orthographic differences, but are the same and unfortunately break off at almost the same point in the text.
• Although the hand copy shows the sign after ÚŠ to be ŠU, we read ­ma because 32.A.80 has BA.ÚŠ­-ma. The two signs are alike, and this is likely a mistake on the part of the modern copyist. Additionally the very last sign of SU 1952, 242 r. 40 is drawn on the hand copy as two partially preserved horizontal wedges. Again considering 32.A.80, we suggest reading ˹is˺.

If a City 2 (173, n. 8’ and 189, n. 78) notes the above omen's and 32.A.80’s similarities, but does not read the Sultantepe omen’s final two signs as above. Instead If a City 2 (188, 32.78) reads šu x […]. The signs remain uninterpreted in If a City 2’s (189, 32.78) translation.