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~670 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 10
SAA 10 033. A Mongoose Under the King’s Chariot (ABL 0385) [from astrologers]
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (6) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Does (the omen) '(If something) passes between the legs of a man' apply to something that came out from underneath a chariot?" — it does apply. (11) The king, my lord, say[s]: "'The legs of a m[an]' (means) 'legs' (only) when (something literally) emerges between a man's (legs); that [mongoose passed] between [...]" — perhaps [...] (Break) (r 1) We still take it as a portent. The [mongoose] pa[ssed] from the left…
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