This fragmentary text with bird oracle reports presents peculiar forms in the communication of oracular content. Apparently, the authors included in the running text (of a letter?) some comments about bird flights (obv. 7´), which do not seem to be organic to a complete oracle report in the typical structures. These descriptions of flight also have minor variations from the standard formulary (e.g. “But now it (i.e. the bird) suddenly …” obv. 7´). The tablet’s early date might account for some of these peculiarities, but its fragmentary state does not allow an exact interpretation of the full scope of the composition.

• D. Groddek, DBH 33, 2011: 180f
• Y. Sakuma, Diss., 2009: II 663f.

Handcopy: Ch. Rüster (KBo 47, Otten H. et al. 2005a).

Edition: Sakuma Y. 2009b, 663-664.

Fragment of the lower half of a one-columned tablet, possibly a letter, thus preserving the central part of the composition. The text is probably complete with rev. 14´, in consideration of the paragraph line and the following blank space.

MS (mh.?); diagnostic signs: AK, AḪ(?), AZ (without subscript), DA, EN, IT.

For a MS palaeographic dating (with question mark) see already KBo 47, VII.