Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens And Their Cultural Significance by Morris Jastrow, jr. Ph. D. (Leipzig) Professor of Semitic Languages in the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) Gießen 1914 Verlag von Alfred Töpelmann (vormals J. Ricker) =Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten= begründet von Albrecht Dieterich und Richard Wünsch herausgegeben von Richard Wünsch und Ludwig Deubner in Münster i. W. in Königsberg i. Pr. XIV. Band. 5. Heft To SIR WILLIAM OSLER Regius Professor of Medicine Oxford University This volume is dedicated as a mark of esteem and admiration. "Most fine, most honour'd, most renown'd." (King Henry V, 2d Part, Act IV, 5, 164.) =Analysis= Divination in Babylonia and Assyria 1 Three chief methods: hepatoscopy, astrology and birth-omens 1-6 Spread of Hepatoscopy and Astrology to Hittites, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans and to China 3-4 The Transition motif in religious rites and popular customs 5-6 Omen collections in Ashurbanapal's Library 6-7 Birth-omen reports 9-12 Animal Birth-omens 12-28 Double foetus 13-16 Principles of interpretation 14-15 Multiple births among ewes 17-18 Malformation of ears 19-22 Excess number of ears 20-22 Ewe giving birth to young resembling lion 23-26 Ewe giving birth to young resembling other animals 27-28 Human Birth-omens 28-41 Twins 29-30 Monstrosities 30 Multiple births 31 Malformation of ears 32-33 Malformation of mouth, nostrils, jaws, arms, lips, hand 33-34 Malformation of anus, genital member, thigh, feet 35-36 Principles of interpretation 36 Misshapen embryos 37 Weaklings, cripples, deaf-mutes, still-births, dwarfs 38-39 Talking infants, with bearded lips and teeth 39 Infants with animal features 32. 33. 35-36. 40-41 Study of Human Physiognomy among Greeks and Romans 43-44