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Portents of shooting stars (2)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



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astrology
incantations
Mesopotamia
omens
Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
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Text
Sultantepe Tablet 73.103-109:
You recite the incantation three times, turned towards the Wagon-star, if a (shooting) star passes from your right to your left: favourable, if the star passes from your left to your right: unfavourable, if the star passes from in front of you toward your back: unfavourable, if the star passes from behind your back to in front of you: favourable, if the star passes [through] the Wagon: favourable, if [ … ] it enters into the constellation Wagon: favourable.

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Sultantepe Tablet 73.103-109

Bibliography

Reiner 1960, 28Reiner, Erica. “Fortune-Telling in Mesopotamia.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 19 (1960) 23-35. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]

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