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Solar Omens of Enuma Anu Enlil: Tablets 23 (24)-29 (30). By WILFRED H. VAN SOLDT. Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, vol. 73. Leiden: NEDERLANDS HISTORISCH-ARCHAEOLOGISCH INSTITUUT TE ISTANBUL, 1995. Pp. [xi] + 151 + 15 plates. HFI 58 (paper).
For a long time, the collection of celestial omens (Enuma Anu Enlil) was available only in Ch. Virolleaud's incomplete edition dating from the beginning of this century. Although E. Weidner had prepared the way for a new edition by his articles on the organization of the collection, it was not before 1975 that such an edition was begun, when E. Reiner and D. Pingree inaugurated the series "Babylonian Planetary Omens" with the famous "Venus Tablet", numbered 63 in one of the catalogues of Enuma Anu Enlil. This was followed by another fascicle in the same series in 1981 (a third one is in print). E Rochberg...