History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.439

v6.c82.439

Schiaparelli in ‘Astronomy in the old Testament’ (p. 85) observes that in Babylonia upright stones were placed in fields as boundary marks (*Kudurru* in Babylonian) or rather as titles of property by way of public notice, of which thirty have been so far discovered on which figures are drawn and on which inscriptions are found containing most terrible curses on those who would remove the stones. On p 86 he gives the drawing on a Babylonian monument of the 12th century B. C. in which the Moon, the Sun and Venus occupy the central position and round about them there is a crowd of figures, of which one can easily recognize the scorpion, the goat with a fish's tail (Capricornus) and the Archer.⁸⁸³ Hooke remarks that several constellations are assigned to Ea in the astrological texts, the two most frequently mentioned being Pisces and Aquarius and that Ea's symbol as represented on boundary stones was either Ram's head or goat-fish.⁸⁸⁴ It is stated by Frankfort⁸⁸⁵ that of Zodiacal signs in their Babylonian forms only two, Cancer and Sagittarius, do not occur on the seals of the first dynasty of Babylonia