Little of this fragmentary text containing bird oracles can be read. Among its notable aspects are references to elements of the landscape where the observations were conducted, such as mountains and ‘the river’. Observations by the river appear in several bird oracle reports of early date (pre-Imperial age, palaeographically Middle Script). For some notable texts featuring ‘the river’, see the editions of KBo 66.70+ (CTH 573.113), KBo 47.63 (CTH 573.43), and the letter KUB 31.101 (CTH 581.22).

Handcopy: Ch. Rüster (KBo 47, Otten H. et al. 2005a); F. Fuscagni (KBo 63, Fuscagni F. 2015a).

Edition: Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 617-619.

Transliteration: (KBo 47.226) Groddek D. 2011a, 177-178.

The indirect join between the two fragments was proposed by Y. Sakuma (21.9.2006).

Indirect join; the relative positions of the two fragments cannot be determined. Consequently, their ordering in this edition is arbitrary and follows the arrangement in Y. Sakuma's previous edition.

MS (mh.); diagnostic signs: DA, (E), EN, ḪAR, IT, LI(fragmentary).

Due to the fragmentary context, several formulations in both the oracle questions and the bird flight descriptions cannot be precisely understood. A sequence […] ŠÀ pariyan [...] (kolon 5; Frg. 2, line 5´) has no known parallels. In other bird oracles, pariyan is most often associated with movements ‘across’ a river, and more rarely with other landscape features (such as mountains, and exceptionally the KASKAL.KURḪI.A in KBo 41.186+, ed. CTH 573.14). This might also be the case in this text, which refers to movements in relation to the river (dative and accusative cases; kola 13, 15, 22).