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OMENS FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY. xliii
occurred. I send a sure report to the king, my lord. From Tabu-
sil-Marduk, the nephew of Bil-nasir.
day '
Obv. 2. The lacuna is better supplied by 'the fifteenth
than by '
the thirteenth '
as in the transliterations.
No. 53 {Obv. 1-4). The Moon completed the day in Adar :
on the fourteenth the Moon will be seen with the Sun :
will '
draw back '
the day in Nisan and lyyar.
the Moon
No. 54. The Moon will complete the day in Sebat. From
Nabu-ahi-iriba.
No. 55 {Obv. \ff.) Concerning Mercury, of which the king,
my lord, sent me, yesterday Istar-suma-iris in the palace proclaimed
its going forth to Nabil-ahi-iriba. The omens in the festival day
came, they have all been observed and seen, they have passed off.
From Balasi.
Obv, 8. igdiri I, 2 of karu 'to call.' The 'going forth'
indicates the exit of Mercury from some constellation.
Rev. 3. iptusu, cf. Syr. J>ds.
III. When the Moon appears on the Twenty-eighth Day.
No. 57. Of that which to the king, my lord, I sent, the gods
shall straightway (?) open his ears .... When the Moon appears on
for Elam. On
the twenty-eighth it day, is lucky for Akkad, unlucky
the twenty-eighth day the Moon .... from the adverse (?) omen ....
jRev. 4. It is doubtful whether the gloss should be read
\iil\tu mi-hi-ir or \ii\-tam-mi-hi-ir.
No. 58. When the Moon at its appearance appears on the
twenty-eighth day as the first day, it is evil for Aharru. When the
Moon appears on the twenty-eighth day, it is lucky for Akkad,
unlucky for Aharru. From the Chief Physician.
The scribe first wfote the sender's name the wrong way up
on the reverse, and afterwards corrected his mistake, writing it
again the right way arid partly erasing the former.