SpTU 2, 046 [SB Barutu Šumma Padanu Commentary]

(o 1) If, when you read the lines of the textual witnesses of the scholarly commentary on the Path:

(o 2) If the Path stands on the right: the gods will go beside my army; favourable. (Or) the Path is located on the right; alternatively, is sunken (on the right) and is torn loose on its left.

(o 4) If the Path stands on the left: the gods will go beside my enemy's army. If, second, the Path does not change: an ambiguous omen. If, third, the Path is distorted: (divine) anger.

(o 6) If the middle of the Path stands (there): your allies will defect to the enemy. If, second, the Path gathers (in the middle and) is short: my army will not achieve its aims. (The reading) NIGIN (for the sign) LAGAB (means) "to gather". (The reading) LUGUD (for the sign) LAGAB (means) "short". "To gather" (thus means) "to be short". If, third, the Path is placed ...: the enemy will take my divinatory leather bag.

(o 9) If [...] are very thin: losses; the man's behaviour is in good order with the god. [...] they will give their sign. If they are located on the right: favourable.

(o 11) [...]. This is its drawing.

(o 12) [...] is divided and its centre is obliterated. [...] ambiguous omens; alternatively, the god will not be present in the man's offering.

(o 14) [...] (means) "to distort".

(o 15) [...] they [...] and

(o 16) [...] army

(r 1') (Assurbanipal), who learned and understood in his heart the diviner's lore, the secret of heaven and earth, the wisdom of Šamaš and Adad. He wrote, checked, (and double) checked that tablet and deposited (it) inside his palace.