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HEN Wilhelm Spiegelberg published Papyrus Cairo 312221 over forty years ago, he did not attempt more than what he warned was a conjecture at its contents. He did not hazard a translation but did correctly identify the contents as astrological. He also saw that it dealt not with the fortunes of persons but with those of Egypt and neighboring countries. It has apparently meant no more to anyone else since. That is not strange if for no other reason than that, as Spiegelberg observed, scarcely a sentence is intact, so badly preserved is the papyrus. A few years ago, at the instigation of Professor O. Neugebauer, I began looking for demotic astrological texts, and I owe Dr. Neugebauer much for help in understanding particularly the astronomical situation involved in this one. It was not until I perceived in the Cairo papyrus the presence of the same planetary symbols in the same sequence as in Dem. P. Berlin 82792 that it began to take on significance. The framework became apparent. The astronomical events on which the predictions are based are as follows : If Sothis rises when the moon is in Sagittarius " " " " Saturn " " " Saturn Jupiter " " " " Mars " " Gemini " " " " Venus " " [Gem

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Author

George R. Hughes

Published

1951

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)