1. A few Reports concern abnormal births. Most of them were already edited by E. Leichty.[[27]] Of the few such Reports preserved, only two were signed by their senders (no. 287, from Nergal-eṭir and no. 240, name unreadable). Like celestial observations, the observed malformed births were interpreted by quoting from a collection of pertinent omens called Šumma izbu. In several cases, the omens quoted in the Reports can be identified in Šumma izbu.
2. Two reports (nos. 237 and 243) contain omens from animal behavior ofthe type collected in the series Šumma ālu. The animals observed are falcons and snakes.
3. Quotations from hemerologies are inserted in several Reports on celestial observations (nos. 269, 371, and 378). There are also a number of Assyrian tablets in the shape of Reports entirely consisting of such hemerology excerpts:[[28]] no. 162 (from Adad-šumu-uṣur), no. 164 (from Aššur-naṣir), and nos. 231-234.
27 E. Leichty, The Omen Series Šumma izbu (TCS 4).
28 Cf. S. J. Lieberman. Festschrift Moran, p. 321ff.
Hermann Hunger
Hermann Hunger, 'Reports on Other Matters', Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings, SAA 8. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1992; online contents: SAAo/SAA08 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa08/reportsonomens/othermatters/]