Abstract
During the 1935-1936 excavation campaign at the Mari-Tell Hariri site in Syria, thirty-two models of livers bearing oracular statements were discovered in room 108 of the Grand Palais Royal. Epigraphic and linguistic analysis of these inscriptions argues in favor of dating these models to the end of the XIXᵉ century BC, and even, for some of them, to the very beginning of the XVIIIᵉ century BC. A more in-depth study of the oracular statements could clarify the origin of some of them, consider a possible revision of the dating of the maquettes, and recontextualize this compilation within the framework of royal power and its divinatory practices.
