Keeping watch in Babylon : : the astronomical diaries in context / / edited by Johannes Haubold, John Steele, Kathryn Stevens.

• Superior document: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; volume 96
• TeilnehmendeR: Haubold, Johannes,; Steele, John M.,; Stevens, Kathryn, 1986-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
• 出版年: 2019
• 言語: English
• シリーズ: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 100.
• 物理的記述: 1 online resource (323 pages).

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...