Šumma ālu ina mēlê šakin is the title for a series of a collected number of texts of ancient Mesopotamia amounting to one hundred and twenty tablets.
The title translates as If a City is Situated on a Height, and lists something over one thousand omens.
Many of the omens listed in this group begin, in wording, with the words Šumma ina āli ma'du (kind of people), which is to say; if there are too many kinds of people, and the omens in this group then proceed at their end with a description of the occurrence of some kind of misfortune or negative occurrence.
Similarities are recognised within the nature of the series and in other types of works that are concerned with hemerology and menology.
References
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