[60] I. e., a demoniac being or a monstrosity of some kind.
[61] I. e., of the owner of the mother lamb.
[62] I. e., the rudiments of what seems to be a second ear.
[63] Similarly, a second ear appearing below or above (?) the other one, is a favorable sign; on the right side, therefore, favorable to you, on the left favorable to the enemy, and, therefore, unfavorable to your side.
[64] There is inserted at this point an omen for the case that “a foetus has eight (?) feet and two tails with unfavorable interpretations, approach of an usurper, no unity in the land, the land will destroy its inhabitants.”
[65] I. e., not one within the other—in all, therefore, three ears.
[66] Literally “full”.
[67] The ‘wide-eared man’ (rapaš uzni) is the wise man. Ashurbanapal in the subscript to the tablets of his library thanks the gods for having ‘opened his ears wide’, i. e. given him understanding etc.
[68] See the partial list of such texts, Jastrow, Religion II 851 note 1.
[69] Cun. Texts XXVII Pl. 21-22, with a duplicate Pl. 19 (K. 4132).