Feb.4] PROCEEDINGS. [1890.Line34, Star No. XXVIII.KakkabA - nu - ni - turn u kakkab Si - nu - nu - turn
The-Star of- Anunit andthc-star of Sinuntu.TheAkkadian divinityAniina(= an nuna, "thegreatgod")of
Sipparawasmadeby the Semites into the female Anunit(" Great-
goddess"), and identified withIstar. Sheis described by Nabu-
nahid(Nabonidos)as "the mistressof battle, the bearer of the bow
and quiver,... who madeomensfavourableat sunrise and sunset ;" *
and this represents her in a planetary phase,as the star of morn and
eve,Venus. Butshe is further reduplicatedin a stellar form,and
Anunitum is called "the Starof the River Mas-gu-gar" f ("the
Current"), i.e., " rapidus Tigris."TheStar(constellation)in question
will consist of the 2?<?w-stars of Sagittarius, whichare thus appro
priatelyconnectedwiththe goddess of the bow, and are described
by Ptolemy as "The starat the point of the arrow (7) ; the star at
the grip of the left hand (c) ; the one in the southern partof the bow
(e, Kaus, " the Bow ") ; the more-southerly of those in the northern
part of the bow " (X) ; and " the more-northerly of those at the end
of the bow " (/«). TheKakkabSinuntuis " the Star of the Purattu "
("theCurving-river"), the Akkadian Puranunu, EgyptianPuharta,
Hebrew Perath, Median Uprato, Old Persian Uiratu, Classical
Euphrates. Thestarscomposingit will be a and f Sagiitarii ; and
the combined groupof Anunitum and Sinuntu forms the 20th
Arabianmoon-station.
In the first part of this PaperI described StarsNos.I, XXIX,
and XXX ; and we have thereforenowgone roundthe heavenly
circle.
II.
Lines 54-6in Part III of the Tablet alsooccur, in a slightly
differentform, in W.A.I. Ill, 61, 2, lines 19-20, a translation of
whichhas been madeby Prof. Saycein the Transactions, III, p. 291.
As this translation appearedmorethanfifteenyearsago,the learned
authorwoulddoubtlessnowmakesomealterationsin it ; but, at the
sametime, it is by means of the assistance obtainedfrom it and
* Vide Sayce,Rel. Anct. Babylonians,182-4.
t W.A.I. II, 51, 58.
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