Note 926 — Chapter IX · UNLUCKY DAYS
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Rawlinson, Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, v, pls. 48, 49; Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, pp. 379 sqq., Bohn, Der Sabbat im Alten Testament, pp. 55 sqq. A Babylonian tablet (K. 98), published by Professor Sayce (Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 1887, ii, 333-335), gives a list of days on which it was fortunate to undertake such operations as “staking the canal,” “thinning the plantation,” and “sinking the foundations of a house.” Still another text, published by Dr. Stephen Langdon (Expositor, 1909, xxii, 156), contains the injunction that on the fifth day of Nisan “he who fears Marduk or Sarpanit shall not go out to work.” On the Babylonian nubattu see above, p. 241 n.¹