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Keeping watch in Babylon : the astronomical diaries in context /
This volume of collected essays, the first of its kind in any language, investigates the Astronomical Diaries from ancient Babylon, a collection of almost 1000 clay tablets which, over a period of some five hundred years (6th century to 1st century BCE), record observations of selected astronomical...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;
v. 100. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The early history of the astronomical diaries / John Steele
- Babylonian market predictions / Mathieu Ossendrijver
- Logging history in Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Parthian Babylonia : historical entries in dated astronomical diaries / Christopher Tuplin
- Who wrote the Babylonian astronomical diaries? / Eleanor Robson
- The astronomical diaries and religion in Seleucid and Parthian Babylon : the case of the prophet of Nanaya / Lucinda Dirven
- The museum context of the astronomical diaries / Reinhard Pirngruber
- From Babylon to Batar : the geography of the astronomical diaries / Kathryn Stevens
- Royal presence in the astronomical diaries / Marijn Visscher
- History and historiography in the early Parthian diaries / Johannes Haubold
- The relationship between Greco-Macedonian citizens and the "Council of Elders" in the Arsacid period : new evidence from astronomical diary BM 35269 + 35347 + 35358 / Yasuyuki Mitsuma.