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(1) If the star of Marduk becomes visible at the beginning of the year: that year his furrow will prosper. — Mercury becomes visible in Nisan (I). (4) If a planet comes close to Aldebaran: the king of Elam will die. (6) If a strange star comes close to Enmešarra: people will spread; the land will become happy. (r 1) Mercury became visible in Taurus, it reached the Old Man. (r 4) If [a planet] becomes visible [in ...: rain]s and floods. (r 6) From [......].
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(1) If a planet rises in Marchesvan (VIII): the harvest of the land will prosper. (3) If Scorpius is black: therein will be reconciliation in the land. — Mercury stands in Scorpius. (5) If the bre[ast] of Scorpius, the goddess Išhara, at the renewing of her light is bright, her tail dark, her horns opposing each other: rain and flood will be early in the land; locusts will attack and devour the land; fall of cattle and shepherds' huts; [an enemy land ...] will be conquered. (r 4) [If ......] Scorpius [......]. (Rest destroyed)
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