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...

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Other Authors: Haubold, Johannes (Editor), Steele, John M. (Editor), Stevens, Kathryn, 1986- (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 100.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390805.

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