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xxn INTRODUCTION. clear that no second Adar was used in this year. If all the months had contained thirty days each, and to these an intercalary Adar had been added every six years to make up the solar year, as we should naturally expect would have been done, it would hardly be possible for the calendar month and the lunar month to correspond so exactly at the end of a year in which an intercalary month was not added. We are therefore probably right in assuming that each month did not necessarily contain thirty days, and there is evidence to show that the intercalary month was added at a period less than six years. ^ From the above it is clear that the length of the month was foretold from the appearance of the Moon and Sun on or about the fourteenth day of the month. In No. 119 the astrologer reports that the Moon was seen on the twelfth dav with the Sun, and he makes use of the phrase "The Moon appears out of its time." It is interesting to note that Maimonides, in speaking of the Moon, says " When the Moon is seen on the thirtieth day, she is called the Moon seen in its time,"" and the same writer seems to refer to the variation in the length of the month, i.e., whether it contains twenty-nine or thirty days, when he states that Marcheswan and Kislew may be either "full" or "hollow." 3 ' On the months containing twenty-nine and thirty days in use at Babylon in the era of the Seleucidse, see Epping and Strassmaier, Astronomichcs ai/s Babylon, p. 179. * Kiddush Hahodesh, ed. Witter, Jena, 1703, I, 4. ' Op. cit., VIII, 5.
INTRODUCTION. XXIU From various indications derived from the astro- logical reports, it is clear that the class of magicians who calculated the length of the months and published information concerning them formed a very important section of the Babylonian and Assyrian priesthood, and it is evident from the denunciations hurled asfainst them by Isaiah, in whose book they are described as modiim lehodasim (Isaiah, xlvii, 13), that they occu- pied one of thejiLOSt-pr^ of BabylonT _m-theJiierarchy le Assyrians called the seven planets by the same names by which they were known in Babylonia, i.e., Sin (the Moon), Samds (the Sun), Uimmpaitddu (Jupiter), Dilbat (Venus), Kaimdnu (Saturn), Gudud (Mercury), Mustabarril-miltdiizi (Mars). The twelve siofns of the Zodiac, which were also known to the Babylonians, are thus called :— Aries Late
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oxen and men : cai)tured. , . Scorp
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OMENS FROM STARS. Ixxv No. 235. Mar
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THE moon's disappearance Ixxvli No.
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OMENS FROM THUNDER. Ixxix Let them
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thrive.' OMENS FROiM THUNDER. Ixxxi
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OMENS FROM EARTHQUAKES. Ixxxi'ii in
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OMENS FROM ECLIPSES. " Ixxxv Siwan
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OMENS FROM ECLIPSES. Ixxxvii A grea
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OMENS FROM ECLIPSES. Ixxxix evil wh
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odite. GMKNS FROM BIRTHS. xci XVII.
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TRANSLITERATIONS. I. Omens from the
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OMENS FROM THE FIRST DAY. No, 12. O
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OMENS FROM THE FIRST DAY. su-ri sar
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OMENS FROM THE MOON'S HORNS. No. 26
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OMENS FROM THE MOON'S HORNS. No. 34
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OMENS FROM THE MOON'S HORNS. II No.
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OMENS FROM THE MOON'S HORNS. 1 3 No
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OMENS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY. 1
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OMENS FROM THE THIRTIETH DAY. ly No
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OMENS FROM THE THIRTIETH DAY. I9 il
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(3) VARIOUS OMENS FROM THE MOON. 21
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VARIOUS OMENS FROM THE MOON. 2$ [Ah
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OMENS FROM THE MOON'S HALO. 2$ . .
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OMENS FROM THE MOON S HALO. 2/ sami
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OMENS FROM THE MOON S HALO. 29 GAN
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OMENS FROM THE MOON'S HALO. 3 1 Ana
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(8) . . . "1 ma . OMENS FROM THE MO
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O^rENS FRO:\I THE TWELFTH DAY. 35 i
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OMENS FROM THE FOURTEENTH DAY. 37 (
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OMENS FROM THE FOURTEENTH DAY. 39 k
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OMENS FROM Till-: FOURTEKNTH DAY. 4
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OMENS FROM THE FOURTEENTH DAY. 43 i
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OMENS FROM THE FOURTEENTH DAY. 45 N
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OMENS FROM THE FOURTEENTH DAY. 47 s
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OMENS FROM THE FOURTEENTH DAY. 49 S
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OMENS FROM THE FOURTEENTH DAY. 5 1
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OMENS FROM THE FOURTEENTH DAY. 53 g
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OMENS FROM THE FIFTEENTH DAY. 55 il
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OMENS FROM THE SIXTEENTH DAY. 57 {}
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OMENS FROM THE SUN. 59 [mis innamru
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OMENS FROM THE SUN. 6 1 arhu zunna
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[it]-tan-mar a-di ""'' SU . in-na-m
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OMENS FROM STARS. 65 mati ibassi(si
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OMENS FROM STARS. 67 sar Akkadi '^'
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OMENS FROM STARS. 69 No. 201. Obv.
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altftti (5) ina niati ibassu OMENS
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OMENS FROM STARS. 73 (6) . . . di '
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OMENS FROM STARS. 75 a-dir (4) III
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OMENS FROM STARS. ']^ nam-rat zibba
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OMENS FROM STARS. 79 ""' hi (?)...
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il-ia i-sap-[ra] (ii) ma-a ana "" L
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OMENS FROM STARS. 83 lu (?)-il ...
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No. 242. Obv. (i) Ana MUL . (2) mat
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ana lib Sin irub ftmi i'^ rubi labi
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OMENS FROM STORMS. 89 XI. Omens fro
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OMENS FROM STORMS. 9I sa pa-ni ...
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OMENS FROM THUNDER. 93 pa-an "^ KAK
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OMENS FROM EARTHQUAKES. 95 No. 262a
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OMENS FROM EARTHQUAKES. 97 p' (4) .
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(15) OMENS FROM ECLIPSES. 99 lil-su
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OMENS FROM ECLIPSES. lOI (2) . . at
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mur u IM . DIR OMENS FROM ECLIPSES.
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OMENS FROM ECLIPSES. I05 No. 274b.
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OMENS FROM BIRTHS. lO/ No. 274p. Oh
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MISCELLANEOUS FRAGMENTS. IO9 No. 27
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. No. MISCELLANEOUS FRAGMENTS. Ill
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114 *ididu, be sharp, I, i, inf. [i
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Ii6 VOCABULARY. 5 : innamiruni, i8o
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Ii8 VOCABULARY. *'istu, 270, ?: 6 :
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I20 *dibiu, judge, I, i, /w/., dina
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122 *ki'imii, 2 68, 2, r. 4 : *kama
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124 *>nala, all, 22, 8, r. 4 : 267A
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126 *IV, I, ninmura, 223, 7 VOCABUL
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128 VOCABULARY. 137,;-. 4: isabat,
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130 su, poss. masc. pron., VOCABULA
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132 *misru, growth, 200, 6 : Surubh
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134 Bil-ahi-iril>a, writer of, 218.
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13^ — Stz^^//ii[i;ar, iSS, 5 : 19
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138 249, 7 : Kiskw, 7J, 4 : 75> IND
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I40 148, 6: 149, 150, I : 7 : 151,
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142 7 : : 215, 7 halo round Moon in
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144 209, r. I : bright, 205, 2 : hi
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146 LISTS. 229B: 1380, 263: 1383, 7
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