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No. 219. When Mercury culminates in Tammuz, there will be
corpses. When Leo is dark, the heart of the land will not be happy.
Long live the lord of kings ! From Asaridu.
No. 220. When Mercury culminates in Elul, there will be a
heightening of the market, an increase of cereals. Long live the
lord of kings! From Asaridu (the less).
No. 221. Mercury is visible at sunrise in the precincts of
Virgo. This is its interpretation. When Mercury (Nunu) approaches
Spica (Pan), the crops of the land will prosper, the cattle will be
numerous in the fields, the king will grow strong and will overcome
(?) his enemies. Sesame and dates will prosper. When
Mercury culminates in Elul, there will be a heightening (of the
market), an increase of cereals. When Dah is visible in Elul .
will prosper. (Dak =Mercury.) From Asaridu, the son of Damka,
the king's servant.
Ob)v. 2. AB. SIN = sit'r (Brunnow, List No. 3832) =
Virgo (Epping and Strassmaier, Zeis., VII, 220).
No. 222. When Mercury appears in Elul, there will be a
heightening of the market, an increase of cereals. When Leo
(Ur-mah) makes its stars to shine, let the king wherever he goes
(guard himself?). When Leo (Urgula) is dark, lions and jackals
will rage and the traffic of Aharru will be hindered. Fromn Tabia.
Obv. 2. The fourth sign AS may perhaps be read ina here,
i.e. ina napas nissabu; but Brunnow, List, No. 23 = mitlaru,
and it is possible that mahiru may be intended here.
No. 223. When Mercury culminates in Marcheswan, the crops
of the land will prosper. When Scorpio is dim in the centre,
there will be obedience in the land. (Mercury stands within Scorpio.)
When in the flaming light of Scorpio (-Iszara) its breast is briglt,
its tail is dark, its horns are brilliant, rains and floods will be dry in
the land: locusts will come and devour the land; devastation of
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oxen and men: (the weapon is raised and the land of the foe) is
captured . . Scorpio ..
Obv.. No. 223A gives several variants Rev. 5-6, 'its
horns ningula (or) ninbzta.' 7-8, ' Its tail ifat, rains and floods
NIM p I -ni (i.e., is.a.' u 'will be high').
No. 224. [Mercury] is visible. When Mercury is visible in
Kislew, there will be robbers in the land. From Nirgal-itir.
No. 225 (Ob. 3, if) Mercury stands within Simmab. When
Mercury approaches the ' Star of the Tigris' there will be rains and
floods. (Mercury is visible at Sunrise.)
Obv. 4 '' u MAS. TIG . GAR = Anunitu (Brunnow, List,
No. 1878).
No. 226. Mercury is visible with Mars (Muhnul) at sunset;
it is ascending to Sugi. There will be rains and floods. When
Jupiter appears at the beginning of the year, in that year its crops
will prosper. From Nadinu.
No. 228. Mercury stands in Leo. When Lec is dim, the
heart of the land will not be happy. When Regulus is dim, the
director of the palace will die. From Nabu-muSisi.
Obv. I. Cf No. I99A, Obv. 1-2.
No. 230 (Obv. - Rev. 2). When Spica (Pan) stands within
the Moon's halo, lawless men will rage and there will be robbery in
the land. It will not change to evil. The halo of Virgo is for rain
and flood; it is turning cold.
No. 231 (Obv. I-6). When Mars is visible in Tammuz, the bed
of warriors will be wide. When Mercury stands in the north, there
will be corpses, there will be an invasion of the king of Akkad
against a foreign land. When Mars approaches Gemini, a king will
die and there will be hostility.
Obv. 2. No. 232, Obv. 3, explains the omen 'bed of
warriors' as referring to plague.