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Only one of the seven lines of text on this small tablet is relatively well readable (line 3), and contains the proper name of a bird found in oracle reports (ḫaštapi-). Based chiefly on this reading, we can assume the tablet contains a very brief bird oracle report, even though the rest of the text is essentially unreadable. In the second line, we might find a personal name, but the reading is tentative (mpí-am-ma), and primarily relies on the handcopy. The photographs do not clarify whether this reading is reliable.
Even if this reading is correct, connecting it to known names remains difficult: an augur named Piyammu is attested in several oracles (see Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 711 for the attestations), but the spelling differs (mpí-ia-am-mu or mpí-ya-mu).
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