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~670 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 8
SAA 08 080. Mars in Cancer, Thunder in Ab (RMA 256B) [planetary, weather]
(1) [If] Adad th[unders in] Ab (V) [and the day] becomes cloudy, it [rains: the harvest] of the land will not prosper [...]. (4) If Adad [shouts] on a day without clouds: there will [be] famine [in the land]. (6) If light[ning] flashes on a day without clouds: Adad will devast[ate]. (8) "A day without clouds" (means) Ab (V). "Adad will [devasta]te", as it says, (means) [...]. "[Adad will de]vastate" portends hot wea[ther]. (r 1) If a storm rises from the south: fall of the Westl[and]. (r 3) [If M]ar[s stands] in Cancer: [...] will hold [...] ...... (r 5) From Bal[asî].
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