Jan.14] PROCEEDINGS. [189c.
And those starsare found in similar orderin W.A.I. Ill,57, No. 4,
reverse,wherewe read :—
fstHf- r~< T KHf- s=T *T
Kakkab Dii-bat*ana kakkab Tamti dikhu
73i*.S/cir Venus to the Star of the Sea opposite (is).
2 The star Dilbatto the Star of the Fish (^<)is opposite.
The starDilbatto the constellation of the Goat-fish is opposite.
3 The star Dilbatto tlie Star oj the Foundation is opposite.
Here,in each casethe threestars(or asterisms) of the Sea, the Goat-
Fish,and the Foundation appear in the same order. By the " Star
of the Fish," I think we may understand Fomalhaut( Fom-al-hut,
* the-mouth-of-the-Fish," a. Pisa's). We meet againwith Capricorn
and its stars in W.A.I. III. 57, No. 7, Sec. I : —
TssHf ■*< - -S3 ^T
Kakkab Dil-bat ina arakh Duzi.
The-star Venus in the-month of-Tammuz(is seen).
Hf-<« "fsSS? <^ EtTT
D.P.Sin. D.P. Sar - ner - ra
The-Moon, - The King of the Foundation (and)
Hh m «f s£TTT*T ^T R - K QH MT ssHf-
D.P. Gal- lam - ta - ud - du - a ina bi - rit karni kakkabi.
The - Bull - of - the - Rising - Sun\ closeto the - horn of- the -
■ constellation (of the Goat -fishare).
KakkabUz. \ innamiru-vayumu 3 nazuzu.
(Theyand)the-starof -the- Goat art-seenand on-day tht-third they-are-ftxed.
- Mr. Bertin(ThePre- AkkadianSemites,15) prefers to read Dil-mut, but
HesychiosgivesAcX*0ot(= Dil-bat, "Proclaim+ old," = "the AncientFro-
claimer'),o t»/« 'A0potnn<: Arrqp, vttoXa\calwv. Thenamethuscorres
pondswithLubat,"OldSheep"or "Old Ox,"an Akkadian appellationfor
the planets.
t Prof. Sayce renders Gallamla-uddua, " He-who-goes-forth-in-strength "
(Transactions,III, 175),which,I presume, is an Assyrian paraphrase. Cf. a
usualnameof Mercury, Sul-pa-ud-daor Sulpa-uddua, " The-messenger-of-the-
rising-sun."
X As. Emu ; Algedi, as shown above.
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