Note 726 — Chapter VII · THE BABYLONIAN “EVIL DAYS” AND THE SHABATTUM
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Rawlinson, op. cit., ii, pl. 32, no. i, 16 a-b (Cuneiform Texts, pt. xviii, pl. 23, 17 [K. 4397]). The discovery of this important equation was made by W. H. Boscawen; see A. H. Sayce, in Academy, 1875, viii, 555. Shabattu(m) here and elsewhere can be read shapattu(m), without, however, affecting the sense (P. Jensen, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 1900, xiv, 182; H. Zimmern, in Schrader, Keilinschriften,³ p. 592 n.⁵).