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Earthquake in Šebat (1)

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 		Keywords
omens
Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Sasanid Empire 		Channel
Neo-Assyrian texts
Sogdian culture

Text
SAA 8 36.14:
If the earth quakes in Šebat: in the palace of the ruler another one will dwell.

SAA 8 495.4-5:
[If in Šebat the earth] quakes: the enemy will take up residence in the ruler’s palace; [the ruler] will be humiliated [in the land] of his enemy. SMN 3180 13:
If the earth quakes in Šebat, in the sovereign’s palace a foreigner will dwell.

Christian Sogdian Text:
In Šbaṭ: … [if perchance the earth] should quake, the rulers of the land [will be deposed (?)].

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Christian Sogdian Text
SAA 8 36.14
SAA 8 495.4-5
SMN 3180 13

Bibliography

Lacheman 1937, 6Lacheman, E. R. “An Omen Text from Nuzi.” Revue d'Assyriologie 34 (1937) 1-8.
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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