Author: Abraham Joseph Sachs
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
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Author: Johannes Haubold
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004397760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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This volume offers the first holistic examination of the Astronomical Diaries, a remarkable set of 1000 clay tablets from ancient Babylon in which for over 500 years (6th–1st century BCE) scholars combined astronomical observations with records of events on earth.

Author: Abraham Sachs
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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A large volume of tablets, transliterated by Abraham Sachs and Hermann Hunger, of lunar and planetary information dating from the 8th to 1st century BC. The first part examines tablets relating to the moon, especially eclipse reports, the second to the planets and the recurrence of astronomical phenomena. An appendix contains a list of eclipse dates.

Author: Abraham J. Sachs
Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : de
Pages : 388

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Author: Abraham J. Sachs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783700190325
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From the 7th to the 1st century BC, daily observations of the sky were performed and their results written down on clay tablets in some Babylonian cities, especially in Babylon. The observations concern the moon and the planets and their phenomena, as well as the weather, the level of the River Euphrates and the prices of important commodities. While these "Astronomical Diaries" are mostly fragmentary and cover only a small part of the period concerned, they nevertheless provide important insights into an observational program that was carried out over seven centuries and contains valuable material even for modern astronomers. Volume IV contains all Astronomical Diaries that were too fragmentary to be dated and, in an Addenda section, those that it was only possible to date after the publication of volumes I-III. Together, volumes I-IV provide the complete edition of this group of cuneiform texts. It can be expected that the newly dated Diaries in particular will prove interesting for astronomers and historians, and will contribute new details to the history of Babylonia in the Hellenistic and Parthian periods.

Author: Abraham J. Sachs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783700130284
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Abraham J. SACHS
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69

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Author: Hermann Hunger
Publisher:
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Abraham Sachs
Publisher:
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
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