Keeping watch in Babylon : : the astronomical diaries in context / / edited by Johannes Haubold, John Steele, Kathryn Stevens.
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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| Superior document: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; volume 96 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019. |
| Năm xuất bản: | 2019 |
| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
| Loạt: | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
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| Mô tả vật lý: | 1 online resource (323 pages). |
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- 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.