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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Format: eBook
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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Call Number: QB19 .K44 2019
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Tables and Figures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction /
- Johannes Haubold , John Steele and Kathryn Stevens
- 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 Nanāya /
- Lucinda Dirven
- The Museum Context of the Astronomical Diaries /
- Reinhard Pirngruber
- From Babylon to Baḫtar: 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
- Back Matter
- Index of Modern Authors.