Lit. “left-ness of (a) ‘weapon’”. For the meaning of ‘weapon/tool’ in reference to an oracle, and the parallel usage of Akk.
kakku as ‘sign’, see
Moore G.C. 1981a, 49-52 and
Hout Th.P.J. van den 1998c, 11. For this usage of
GIŠTUKUL see also obv. 12´. This sentence can be also understood as a direct question: “… will an unfavorable (oracular) sign not bring down
[His Majesty
]?”