This small fragment contains eleven lines of text from a bird oracle report. The first five lines probably contain the oracle request, but only a few signs are legible in each line, preventing a determination of the context of this inquiry. The following lines contain better-preserved portions of the oracle report, describing bird flights. Unfortunately, the fragment breaks at the point corresponding to the name of the augur responsible for the report (kolon 15).

Notable in this otherwise unassuming fragment is a difference in script between the two portions of text. Lines 1–5, although very poorly preserved, appear to be written in a slightly smaller script, whereas lines 6–11 have larger, more widely spaced signs, which are also somewhat more deeply impressed in the clay. Interestingly, these sections of text also correspond to the different content sections of the oracle report, i.e., the introduction and the main report. For a discussion of several similar cases of multiple scripts in oracle reports, see Trameri A. 2025a, 289-308.

• J. Tischler, DBH 52, 2019: 88
• Y. Sakuma, Diss., 2009: II 354-356

Handcopy: A. Archi (KUB 49, Archi A. 1979e).

Edition: Sakuma Y. 2009b, II 354-356.

Transliteration: Tischler J. 2019a, 88.

Fragment of the central portion of a tablet, preserving about ten lines of text. The written paragraph is followed by a blank section, which shows traces of erasure or scraping across the surface of the tablet.

NS (jh.); diagnostic signs: ḪA (LNS?), IT, TAR.