Note 744 — Chapter VII · THE BABYLONIAN “EVIL DAYS” AND THE SHABATTUM

Above, p. 182 n.⁷ There are numerous reports by Babylonian astrologers according to which any one of five days, from the twelfth to the sixteenth of the month, might be taken as the exact time when the moon became full, depending, of course, upon how early or how late was the visible new moon (Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel, ii, 14 sq.).