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Alexander and Nectanebus (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery




 		Keywords
astrology
omens
Syria
Period
Byzantine Empire 		Channel
Aramaic culture

Text
Alexander Romance (Syriac Version) 1:
Then Alexander walked behind his father, whom he knew not, and they went outside the city. Then Nectanebus lifted up his eyes, and said to the boy, “Observe how gloomy this sign of Saturn is, how much this (sign of) Ares resembles blood, how this (sign of) Baltī (= Venus) stands in joyfulness, how favourable is this (sign) of Nabo the scribe, and how bright is the sign of Bēl.”

Source (list of abbreviations)
Alexander Romance (Syriac Version) 1

Bibliography

Budge 1889, 15Budge, E. A. Wallis. The History of Alexander the Great, being the Syriac Version. Edited from five manuscripts of the Pseudo-Callisthenes with an English Translation. London: Cambridge University Press 1889 (reprint: Amsterdan: APA-Philo Press 1976, esp. pp. cv-cvi, lxxxi-lxxxiii, 5-6, 11-12, 15).

Amar Annus


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