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~670 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 8
SAA 08 300. Eclipse of the Moon in Evening Watch [eclipses]
(1) [......] eclipse (predicting) deaths; deaths ... [......] Venus until [......]. (Break) (14) [......] Adad will devastate [......]. (16) [If] there is an eclipse in Sivan (III) on the 14th day: an [effective] kin[g who is famous will die, and his son, who] was not named for kingship, will seize the throne, and [there will be] hos[tility, variant: there will be deaths]. (r 1) [If] there is an eclipse [in S]ivan (III) from the 1st to the 30th day: it is an ec[lipse of the king of Akkad; a peak flood] will occur, and Adad will devastate the land; the harvest of the lan[d will not prosper; a…
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