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If Adad thunders (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



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omens
weather
Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Sasanid Empire
Channel
Aramaic culture
Neo-Assyrian texts


Text
A Sogdian prognostic text cites a Babylonian omen, Babylonian Ṭebētu corresponding to Syriac (and Sogdian) Latter Kanun.

Enūma Anu Enlil, 22.2 10.2:
If Adad thunders (in Ṭebētu): the days will be dark and there will be no rain; there will be ice.

Christian Sogdian Text 5r26:
In [Latter Kanun: should thunder occur, … ] will be cold.


Sources (list of abbreviations)
Christian Sogdian Text 5r26
Enūma Anu Enlil, 22.2 10.2

Bibliography

Rochberg-Halton 1988, 268Rochberg-Halton, F. Aspects of Babylonian celestial divination. The lunar eclipse tablets of Enuma Anu Enlil. Archiv für Orientforschung, Beiheft 22. Horn: Ferdinand Berger 1988.
Sims-Williams 1996, 79Sims-Williams, Nicholas. “From Babylon to China. Astrological and Epistolary Formulae across Two Millennia.” In: La Persia e l'Asia centrale da Alessandro al X secolo. Atti dei convegni lincei 127. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1996, 77-84.

Amar Annus


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