Danānu 'strength' (logogram KALAG) is attested in omen texts and extispicy reports from the OB period on.[[131]] It belongs to the parts of the liver known collectively as pān takālti, and tablet 4 of this series is devoted to it.[[132]] Its location according to the liver models from Boghazköi and the "orientation" liver is in the proximity of the umbilical fissure perhaps on the inside and to the left of the latter.[[133]] Note the following protases showing its proximity to the 'crucible' and its parts:
The 'strength' is one of the four markings said to be present, under normal conditions, on the liver (see above). The Sargonid texts, however, single out the opposite omen, i.e. "the 'strength' is absent."
131 E.g., YOS 10 21, RA 38 80:9ff.
132 Boissier DA 6-10; cf. KAR 423 ii 27-39.
133 For the evidence see Jeyes, JCS 30 (1978) 224f. On the 'strength' see also Starr Rituals, p. 82, and Nougayrol, RA 40(1946)66.
Ivan Starr
Ivan Starr, 'The 'Strength' (danānu)', 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/theliveranditsparts/thestrength/]