Small fragment with four lines of text partially preserved. The surviving portion includes part of the oracular question with the formula “let the birds confirm it” and part of the report on the birds’ flight.

The content of the first sentence suggests that this fragment belongs to a combined oracle. In fact, the formulation IŠTU … “By/through (the augur; the diviner; the ‘Old Woman’)” typically follows other observations, carried out through a different type of oracle.

• Y. Sakuma, Diss., 2009: II 442f.

Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 442-443. The edition by Sakuma provides some additional tentative restorations, while our edition is more conservative, and includes only those restoration which are virtually certain.

Autography: H. Otten – C. Rüster (KBo 34).

NS (jh.). Too small for paleographic analysis. Possible late forms of TAR, ḪAR(?).