Chapter 38

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 K 03726+ Sm 0472+ <p>The broken sign in Sm 0472+ 4&#39;, read as ˹x˺, is the head of a horizontal wedge. As in the previous omen, and as already suggested by <em>If a City </em>2, 276, n. 32-33&#39; (typo: the note refers to her omens *33&#39;-*34&#39;), an adverb or an adverbial phrase may have occurred in the break, perhaps &#39;all day/all night&#39;, beginning with <em>ina</em>, as in omens <a href="https://tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-38-40-/tei">38.40&#39;</a>-<a href="https://tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-38-41-/tei">38.41&#39;</a>. Whether this is correct or not, the ˹x˺ cannot represent the beginning of G&Ugrave;.G&Ugrave;-<em>si</em> because, otherwise, <a href="https://tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-38-32-/tei">38.32&#39;</a> and 38.33&#39; would have the same protasis.</p> <p>In K 03726+&nbsp;<em>iii</em> 22, the apodosis of the omen is partially written over the ruling, suggesting that the ruling might have been drawn before the line was written.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>DIŠDIŠDIŠMINMINlal-la-ruinainainaÉE2ÉLÚLU2NA……GÙ. GÙ-si….GU3-si(indent)inainaÉE2BI……ÚŠUŠ2ÚŠUG7xDIŠlal-la-ruinaÉNAx…GÙ.GÙ-siinaÉBI…ÚŠÚŠDIŠlal-la-ruinaE2LU2…GU3.GU3-siinaE2BIUŠ2UG7šummalallaruinabītamēli……ištassiinabītišuāti…mītuimâtin th[at] house [...] a dying man will die.If a $lallaru/$-cricket in a man's house … [… ca]lls repeatedlyIf a grasshopper in a man's house […] is persistently calling, in [that] house someone mortally ill will die.