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  1. A. J. Sachs and Hermann Hunger, Astronomical Diaries and Related texts from
    Babylonia, vol. 1: Diaries from 652 B.C. to 262 B.C. (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen
    Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1988), 177, No. 330.

  2. Ibid.

  3. R. Labat, Un calendrier babylonien des travaux des signes et des mois (Séries Iqqur
    Îpuš) (Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, 1965).

  4. Ibid., 132–32, §64: 2 and 5.

  5. F. Rochberg, Babylonian Horoscopes (Philadelphia: American Philosophical
    Society, 1998), 82–85.

  6. The dating of MUL.APIN is summarized in Hunger and Pingree, Astral Sciences
    in Mesopotamia (Leiden: Brill, 1999), 57.

  7. Hermann Hunger and David Pingree, MUL.APIN: An Astronomical Compendium
    in Cuneiform (Horn, Austria: Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Söhne, 1989), 148–49.

  8. F. N. H. Al- Rawi and A.R. George, “Enu ̄ma Anu Enlil XIV and Other Early Astro-
    nomical Tables,” Archiv für Orientforschung 38 / 39 (1991 / 1992): 52–73.

  9. For an exposition of the text, see Hunger and Pingree, Astral Sciences, 44–50.

  10. Al- Rawi and George, “Enu ̄ma Anu Enlil XIV and Other Early Astronomical
    Tables.”

  11. Adapted from F. Rochberg- Halton, Aspects of Babylonian Celestial Divination:
    The Lunar Eclipse Tablets of Enu ̄ma Anu Enlil (Horn, Austria: Verlag Ferdinand Berger &
    Söhne, 1988), 209.

  12. Hermann Hunger, Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (Helsinki: Helsinki Uni-
    versity Press, 1992), 269.

  13. Hunger and Pingree, Astral Sciences, 120–21.

  14. Ibid., 122–23.

  15. O. Neugebauer, Astronomical Cuneiform Texts, vol. 2: The Planets (London: Lund
    Humphries, 1955), Nos. 310, 654, 655, 810.

  16. Sachs and Hunger, Astronomical Diaries and Related texts from Babylonia, vol. 1,
    220–21, obv. 4.

  17. See G.Grasshof, “Normal Star Observations in Late Babylonian Astronomical
    Diaries,” in Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination, ed. N. M. Swerdlow (Cambridge,
    MA: MIT Press, 1999), 97–148.

  18. Enu ̄ma Eliš VI, 80–81.

  19. Ibid., VI, 78.

  20. Rochberg- Halton, Aspects of Babylonian Celestial Divination, 270–71.

  21. Erra Epic I, 133–34.

  22. O. R. Gurney and J. J. Finkelstein, The Sultantepe Tablets, 2 vols. (London: The
    British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1957), No. 71:20.

  23. Hermann Hunger, Babylonische und assyrische Kolophone (Neukirchen- Vluyn:
    Verlag Butzon & Bercker Kevelaer, 1968), No. 77.

  24. Ibid., No. 93.

  25. Ibid., No. 50.

  26. Ibid., No. 206.

  27. Joan Goodnick Westenholz, “Thoughts on Esoteric Knowledge and Secret
    Lore,” in Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East: Papers Presented at the 43rd Rencontre


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