Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia

Volume VII. Almanacs and Normal Star Almanacs

by Hermann Hunger

Book cover: Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia

Extent: 457 pages

Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

Subjects: Ancient Near East

Series: Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse

Series volume number: 466

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2014)

ISBN: 9783700176275

Price: $121.00

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This volume contains an edition of clay tablets written during the time from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD. They list astronomical phenomena for a given year in chronological sequence, like a calendar. All data are calculated in advance. They are: first and last appearances of the moon and planets, with day number and zodiacal sign; solstices and equinoxes and phenomena of Sirius. For the outer planets, stations and acronychal risings are given. Furthermore the entrances of planets into zodiacal signs are listed. In some of the tablets, the conjunctions of planets with fixed stars are predicted. The predictions were most likely done with the help of Goal-Year Texts, which were edited in volume VI.

  • By (author) Hermann Hunger