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Only thirteen signs remain in, Middle or New Script. The text definitely deals with lunar eclipses but, as already observed by Riemschneider, the eclipses are likely part of the apodosis and thus this fragment is strictly speaking not a lunar eclipse tablet, but could belong to any astral omen type in which eclipses can appear in the apodosis, such as KBo 13.20, KUB 8.26+, and KUB 8.30. The sign traces here do not fit any other passage, unfortunately. Noteworthy is the co-occurrence of D30 and DEN.ZU in the fragment. Since the group CTH 560 is reserved for unclassfiable omen fragments and this fragment is clearly a celestial omen text, the text has been left in CTH 533.
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