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A city making noise (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



 		Keywords
cities
omens
Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Neo-Assyrian texts

Text
If a city is making a how[ling sound … ]. If a city is making a murm[uring sound … ]. If a city is making a ru[mb]ling sound, [that] city [ … ]. If a city is repeatedly crying out, that city will be dispersed. If a city’s moves underneath and makes a grumbling sound like an army camp, that city will soon be utterly dispersed. If a city is regularly quiet, that city will go on normally.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Šumma ālu 1.8-13

Bibliography

Freedman 1998, 27Freedman, Sally M. If a City Is Set on a Height. The Akkadian Omen Series Šumma Alu ina Mēlê Šakin. Vol. 1: Tablets 1-21. Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund 17. Philadelphia: Samuel Noah Kramer Fund 1998.
Stol 2000, 213Stol, M. Birth in Babylonia and the Bible. Its Mediterranean Setting. Cuneiform Monographs 14. Groningen: Styx Publications 2000.

Amar Annus


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