Note 711 — Chapter VII · THE BABYLONIAN “EVIL DAYS” AND THE SHABATTUM
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Enuma elish, v, ll. 12-18 (transl. L. W. King, The Seven Tablets of Creation, London, 1902, i, 78, 81):
“The Moon-god he caused to shine forth, the night he entrusted to him. He appointed him, a being of the night, to determine the days; Every month without ceasing with the crown he covered (?) him, (saying): ‘At the beginning of the month, when thou shinest upon the land, Thou commandest the horns to determine six days And on the seventh day to [divide] the crown On the fourteenth day thou shalt stand opposite, the half[...].’”
For other translations see P. Jensen, Die Kosmologie der Babylonier, Strassburg, 1890, pp. 288 sqq.; W. Muss-Arnolt, in R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Literature, New York, 1901, p. 296.