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Prognostics in the Sogdian texts (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Hemerological and menological omens (Iqqur īpuš) 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.02 Omen interpretation 05.02.04 Hemerological and menological omens (Iqqur īpuš) Month names (Nisan, Iyyar … ) 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.07 Chronology and hemerology 05.07.04 Month names (Nisan, Iyyar … )	Keywords omens weather
Period Sasanid Empire	Channel Aramaic culture

Summary
A prognostic text in Sogdian offers an exact parallel to Babylonian Iqqur īpuš.

Text
A prognostic text in Sogdian offers an exact parallel to Babylonian Iqqur īpuš.

Iqqur īpuš 88.1-5:
If in the month Nisan Adad thunders, the reign will change. Adad will smash the grain with his rains. If (it happens) in the month Iyar, there will be deaths (variant: hostilities) in the land. If in the month Siwan, there will be rebel in the land. If in the month Du’uzu, the harvest of the land will prosper.

Christian Sogdian Text:
[In Nisan: if thunder should occur, that] year [the grain will not] ripen well; if perchance the earth should quake, there will be much rain but men will be very unhappy. In the month Iyar: when thunder occurs, there will be strife; if perchance the earth should quake, there will be famine in all directions. In the month Tamuz: when thunder occurs, there will be much wheat and wine.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Christian Sogdian Text
Iqqur īpuš 88.1-5

Bibliography

Labat 1965, 173	Labat, R. Un Calendrier babylonien des travaux, des saisons, et des mois. Paris: Champion 1965.
Sims-Williams 1996, 78	Sims-Williams, Nicholas. “From Babylon to China. Astrological and Epistolary Formulae across Two Millennia.” In: La Persia e l'Asia centrale da Alessandro al X secolo. Atti dei convegni lincei 127. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1996, 77-84.

Amar Annus

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