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The omen texts which have come down to us in late copiesl contain numerous allusions to important events in the long history of Mesopotamia2. Although the historical information they contain in most cases accords well with the general picture of the Course of events that historians have drawn up for us the actual value of these omina may still be considered as doubtful. In fact historians have rejected part of the information as spurious. ## Now that a large body of Old Babylonian omen texts has become available, the ques-(3) inuma inu Enlil, the great astrological work Ch Virolleaud, L'sstrologie Chaldeenne; N Iastrow, l c 415ff ; Weidner AfO 14 172ff , 308ff (known to me by title onlY) The other-series, e g , §"mra Glu (F Notcher, Or 31, 39-42, S1-S4), the physiognoric series (F R Kraus, Die physiognomischen Omina der Babylonier, MVAeG 40/2; Texte \*ur babylonischen Physiognomlk, AfO Bh. 3l f Or \* NS 16 172-206) and the 'disgnostic' \*eries (Labat, 1tA 40 27ff. 3, contain no historical interpretations. 2 Weidner, NAOG 4 226ff.; Oppenhelm, Or. NS 5 219ff.;
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- Author
- Albrecht Goetze
- Published
- 1947
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)