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Re: Nabonidus
Avigdor, while I think it is quite likely that you're right in
claiming that attempts were made to avert the consequences of
unfortunate astrological omina, there are no apotropaic texts known
to me which actually attempt to do this. Perhaps they employed some of
the namburbis of extreme generality for this purpose, or else simple
prayers; but no astrological series has conjurations appended to it as is the case
with the Assyrian Dream Book; nor are there namburbi series
specificaly designed to answer to enuma anu enlil's portents. In
fact, I believe C.J. Gadd even claimed that no attempt was made to
avert such portents.
Fred Cryer