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watclh lhappns, the temples of the land will be smitten, Sa:ia:
will be hostile. (Rev. 14.) When an eclipse happens in
Siwan out of its time, an all-powerful king will die, and Rammart
will inundate; a flood will come and Ramman will
diminish the crops of the land; he that goes before the army
will be slain.
No. 271A. The Moon appeared on the i 5th of Elul (with) the
Sun; the eclipse failed ...
No. 272 (Obv. 7 f). When Sarur and Sargaz of the sting of
Scorpio are bright, the weapons of Akkad will come. (The sting of
Scorpio is the great lord Pabilsag). Venus is standing in Pabilsag.
When Nirgal stands in Pabilsag, a strong enemy will raise (his
weapons in) the land, Bel will give his weapons to the enemy; the
wide forces of the enemy will slay troops. When Scorpio is dark,
the kings of all lands will cause hostility (?) (or) the kings of all lands
will rival (?). When Scorpio assumes a darkness, the food of men
will be evil. (Mars stood within it.) When Libra is dark, the third
year locusts will come and devour the crops of the land (or) locusts
will devour the land . will devour the standing crops. The
third year . . . Mars has stood within Scorpio: this is its interpretation.
When Mars approaches Scorpio, the prince will die by a
scorpion's sting (or) will be captured in his palace ..
When Jupiter has culminated and passed Regulus and
brightened it, the back part of Regulus (which Jupiter had passed
and brightened) reaches and passes Jupiter, and it (Jupiter) then
goes to its disappearance, there will be war, and the enemy will
come and seize the throne, the land will be ravaged twice.
All the omens that have come to me concern Akkad and its
princes; none of their evil concerns the king my lord: the eclipse
of the Moon and Sun which happened in Siwan-these omens which
are evil for Akkad and the kings of Anarru are for Akkad; and yet
in this month Marcheswan an eclipse happened . . and Jupiter
stood within the eclipse-it is well for the king, my lord. This is
all which Bil-usizib has sent to the king. Let the king so act that I
may raise myself before the king, my lord. Tihe princes of Akk d
whom the king, thy father, had appointed have ravaged Ba-ylon '
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evil which have come. to me; let the army of the king go and in the
palace e . capture them and appoint others in their stead. Unless
the king acts speedily, the foe . .: he shall come and change
them. i am clear . ;
Obv. i . Nirgal is Mars: Jensen, aosin., p. 135.
Obv. 12. mait/u is evidently a gloss to miqu from the root
masz2 to be broad.
Rev. 4. Evidently here we have a description of an
apparent retrogression of Jupiter which appears to have formed
a 'loop' near Regulus. Such a case happened to Mars and
Regulus in I868. In cases where a phenomenon repeats its
action, the result of such an omen will also have a double effect
--the land will be ravaged twice. Cf. also when it thunders
twice, the land which sent thee hostility will send thee peace'
(No. 258, rev. 3).
Rev. 13. nasaka, i.e., I may no longer prostrate myself.
No. 272c. An eclipse of the Moon will take place on the
fourteenth of Adar. When on the fourteenth of Adar an eclipse of
the evening watch happens to the Moon, a decision will be given to
the all-powerful king, the king of Ur and Aharrf. Jupiter and
Venus ... in the eclipse of the Moon. When in Adar an eclipse of
the Moon takes place, the king of Elam... W.hen in Adar an
eclipse of the evening watch... . W hen in Adar from the first to
the thirtieth day an eclipse happens, the reign of the king will be
long, hostility ... When for peace the king, the city and its people
work and are at peace ... (?) a flood will come and the great waters
will burst forth. When the eclipse happens, let the king, my lord,
send and for the king the great waters in Akkad . . and burst
forth, someone shall hear of it. From Nirgal-itir.
Rev. 4. ina SI. MU. The text is slightly doubtful; it
might possibly be translated ' within a year.'
No. 273 On the fourteenth an eclipse will take place; it is
vil for Elam and A h arrf, lucky for the king, my lord; let the king,
.Iy lord, rest happy. It will be seen without Venus; to the Icing,
~I lord, I say 'there will be an eclipse:' From Ira5§i-ilu, the
i :za>nt of the king (the greater).
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