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A portent of the colour of moon (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Moon
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.01 Astral and celestial symbols and imagery
02.01.02 Moon
Moon Omens
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.02 Omen interpretation
05.02.01 Celestial omens (Enūma Anu Enlil)
05.02.01.01 Moon Omens
Red
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.11 Symbolism of colours
02.11.04 Red

Keywords
astrology
omens
Syria

Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars

Text
Syriac Book of Medicines, fol. 261a:
When the disk of the moon is of a fiery red, and its circle is wide (or, broad), it portends wind and trouble.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Syriac Book of Medicines, fol. 261a

Bibliography

Budge 1913, 655

Budge, E. A. Wallis. Syrian Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics or The Book of Medicines. London: Oxford University Press 1913.

Amar Annus

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