Just about any part of the exta, or any fortuitous marking, for that matter, can display branching or bifurcation (larû, lit. "branch," logogram PA), e.g. "A design in the area of the 'finger' has two branches in its tip," BRM 4 12:71.
The 'path' is commonly said to have branches, e.g. "the right side of the 'path' has a bifurcation toward its right narrow part," CT 20 12:1f.[[237]] The 'station' is said to have a bifurcation in Rm 2,103 iii 35ff (and duplicates); note especially line 38, "the top of the 'station' has a branch toward the inside and this branch does not bind the base of the 'station'." A bifurcation of the 'well-being' is attested in TCL 6 3:2f, "the 'well-being' has a bifurcati on toward the side of the gall bladder/umbilical fissure."
237 Note also the opposite case ibid. 3. For numerous other examples see CT 20 28, for which see Klauber PRT p. xxxviii.
Ivan Starr
Ivan Starr, 'The Bifurcation (larû)', Queries to the Sungod: Divination and Politics in Sargonid Assyria, SAA 4. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1990; online contents: SAAo/SAA04 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa04/otherpartsandfeaturesoftheexta/thebifurcation/]