Calendars and years : astronomy and time in the Ancient Near East /
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Language: English
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Call Number: CE21 .C35 2007
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| 010 | |a 2008378104 | ||
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| 050 | 4 | |a CE21 .C35 2007 | |
| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Calendars and years : |b astronomy and time in the Ancient Near East / |c edited by John M. Steele. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Oxford : |b Oxbow, |c 2007. | |
| 300 | |a vii, 167 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Includes six papers from a session on "Calendars and years" at the seventh biennial History of Astronomy Workshop held at Notre Dame University on 8 July 2005. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a A star's year: the annual cycle in the Ancient Egyptian sky / Sarah Symons -- Calendars and years in ancient Egypt: The soundness of Egyptian and West Asian chronology in 1500-500 BC and the consistency of the Egyptian 365-day wandering year / Leo Depuydt -- The 360-day year in Mesopotamia / Lis Brack-Bernsen -- The astrolables: astronomy, theology, and chronology / Wayne Horowitz -- Calendars, intercalations and year-lengths in mesopotamian astronomy / John P. Britton -- The length of the month in mesopotamian calendars of the first millenium BC / John M Steele -- On Greek Stellar and Zodiacal date-reckoning / Alexander Jones. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Calendars |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Calendars |z Middle East |x History. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Steele, John M. | |
| 711 | 2 | |a History of Astronomy Workshop. | |
| 901 | |a reviewed | ||
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