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The obverse contains remnants of a ritual as shown by the use of the measures wakšur and SĀTI, commonly found in rituals. Also, something walks or is driven over a field, but then the text breaks off. The reverse mentions lunar eclipses, but it is in fact uncertain if this is an omen text.
The only line that resembles an omen protasis or apodosis is rev. IV, 1. The phrase IM-anza arāi is also found in the lunar omen text KUB 8.30, where UTU-aš IM-anza arāi likely gives the direction of the wind. Combinations of eclipses and the rise of the North-, South-, East-, or West-wind are known from EAE tablet 16. Also, the text has similarly long paragraphs, and KUB 8.30 and its duplicate both have rituals on the obverse. But the beginning of the omen in CTH 532.11 is lost and the rest of the paragraphs on the reverse do not feature the wind. The second and third paragraph on the reverse rather deal with the moon eclipsing three times in one year (A-NA MU 1KAM an-da 3-ŠÚ pu-uš-zi) and, perhaps, with the splitting of day and night into three. Were it not for the consistent use of the present tense, it faintly recalled the introduction to Enūma Anu Enlil. It may be related to therapeutic texts that as list the cases in which a ritual is to be performed, known from the Mesopotamian namburbû-tradition and KBo 13.29.
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