year (?) weapons are wielded[600] (?),
gold[599] ...

In the month of Marcheshwan (8th month), 10th day, Venus
disappeared at sunrise, for two months and six days was hidden,
and reappeared on the 16th day of Tebet (10th month). There will
be abundant crops.

In the month of Elul (6th month), 26th day, Venus disappeared at
sunset, for eleven days was hidden, and in the second[601] Elul,
on the 7th day, reappeared at sunset. The heart of the land is
good.[6]

In the month of Nisan (1st month), on the 9th day, Venus
disappeared at sunsets[602] (?), and for five months and sixteen
days was hidden, and reappeared in the month of Elul (6th
month), on the 25th day, at sunset. The heart of the land is
good.

In the month of Ab (5th month), 10th day, Venus disappeared at
sunset[603] (?), and for two[604] months and sixteen days was
hidden, and reappeared on the 26th day of Marcheshwan (8th
month). Rains in the land.

In the month of Nisan, 2d day, Venus appeared at sunrise. There
will be distress in the land.

If Venus is stationary to the 6th day of Kislev (9th month) at
sunrise, and then disappears on the 7th day of Kislev, and is
hidden for three months to reappear on the 8th day of Adar (12th
month) at sunset, it indicates that king against king will send
hostility.

In the month of Kislev (9th month), 10th day, Venus appeared at
sunrise. Lack of corn and hay in the land. If she remains in
position up to the 14th day of Ab (5th month) at sunrise, and
then on the 15th day disappears, and for three months is hidden,
and on the 15th day of Marcheshwan (8th month) rises at sunset,
the crops of the land will be good.

A colophon informs us that the tablet in question embodies a series of
observations of the movements of Venus recorded by Babylonian scholars.
It was evidently the purpose of the compilers to commit to writing as
many variations in the appearance and disappearance of the planet as
possible. The omens must either have been furnished at one time or they
embody actual occurrences that were observed in connection with the
observation recorded. In either case the omens served as guides for the
priests in their replies to inquiries. An omen once furnished or an
event once observed as having taken place under given conditions of a
planet served for all times.

The omen lists for the oth