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Only fragments of two omens survive, one after half of the night and one when the ‘night begins to end’, followed by a double paragraph line. It is likely that an omen for the first night watch preceded the two, and such triplets of eclipses during the beginning, middle, and end of the night appear in the second millennium introductory sections of EAE 22, e. g. in the Old Babylonian tablets BM 22696 and BM 86381 and the Middle Babylonian tablet from Alalakh AlT 452. Note, however, that the first omen in CTH 532.1, during the middle of the night, has the same apodosis as the first entry in those second millennium texts outside of Ḫattuša. Such triplets also occur at the beginning of each monthly section in the first millennium version of EAE 17-18 and in one first millennium witness of EAE 16 (Rochberg-Halton F. 1988a: 97-98), but in CTH 532.1 we lack a month name. The fragments thus also relates to 532.8C and CTH 532.12, although we cannot establish any clear connection.
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