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• catalog abstract ""Astronomy and astrology, or the astral sciences, played an enormous, if not key role in the political and religious life of the Ancient Near East, and, later, of the Greek and Roman world. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the origins of the astral sciences in the Ancient Near East." "Every type of Sumerian or Akkadian text dealing with descriptive or mathematical astronomy, including many individual tablets are thoroughly dealt with. All aspects, such as the history of discovery, reconstruction, and interpretation come to the fore, accompanied by a full bibliography."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11418365.
• catalog contributor b11418366.
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog description ""Astronomy and astrology, or the astral sciences, played an enormous, if not key role in the political and religious life of the Ancient Near East, and, later, of the Greek and Roman world. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the origins of the astral sciences in the Ancient Near East." "Every type of Sumerian or Akkadian text dealing with descriptive or mathematical astronomy, including many individual tablets are thoroughly dealt with. All aspects, such as the history of discovery, reconstruction, and interpretation come to the fore, accompanied by a full bibliography."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-292) and index.".
• catalog description "Preliminaries -- Omens -- Second Millennium B.C. -- Old Babylonian -- Areas outside Babylonia -- Middle-Babylonian and Middle-Assyrian -- First Half of the First Millennium B.C. -- Enuma Anu Enlil -- Non-canonical -- Commentaries and explanatory texts -- Diviner's Manual -- Letters and Reports -- Second Half of the First Millennium B.C. -- Proto-horoscopes -- Hypsomata -- Innovations -- Genethlialogy -- Egyptian borrowings -- Indian borrowings -- Astronomy -- The Early Period -- Astronomy in Enuma Anu Enlil -- The Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa -- Planetary theory in Enuma Anu Enlil -- Lunar and solar theory -- Tablet 14 and related texts -- "Astrolabes" or "Three Stars Each" Texts -- MUL. APIN -- Stars -- Planets -- Intercalation Schemes -- Shadow Table and Water Clock -- I. NAM. GIS. HUR. AN. KI. A -- Ziqpu star texts -- The GU Text -- The DAL. BA. AN. NA Text -- Time-keeping texts -- First millennium: Observations and Predictions -- Sargonid Period -- Observations and Predictions in Letters and Reports -- Other Contemporary Observations -- The Diaries -- Planets -- The Moon -- The Normal Stars -- The Sun -- Eclipses -- Excerpts from the Diaries -- Ptolemy's Use of the Diaries -- Normal Star Almanacs -- Almanacs -- Goal-Year texts -- Planets -- Eclipses -- Theoretical Texts -- Early Theoretical Texts, Solar and Lunar -- The "Saros" Cycle -- The Nineteen-year Cycle -- Solstices, Equinoxes, and Phases of Sirius -- Early Theoretical Texts, Planetary -- Period Relations -- Planetary Latitudes -- Subdivisions of Synodic Arcs.".
• catalog extent "xviii, 303 p. : ill. ;".
• catalog identifier "9004101276 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten, 0169-9423 ; 44. Bd. = Handbook of oriental studies. The Near and Middle East".
• catalog isPartOf "Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 44. Bd.".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Leiden ; Boston : Brill,".
• catalog subject "520/.935 21".
• catalog subject "Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian.".
• catalog subject "QB19 .H86 1999".
• catalog tableOfContents "Preliminaries -- Omens -- Second Millennium B.C. -- Old Babylonian -- Areas outside Babylonia -- Middle-Babylonian and Middle-Assyrian -- First Half of the First Millennium B.C. -- Enuma Anu Enlil -- Non-canonical -- Commentaries and explanatory texts -- Diviner's Manual -- Letters and Reports -- Second Half of the First Millennium B.C. -- Proto-horoscopes -- Hypsomata -- Innovations -- Genethlialogy -- Egyptian borrowings -- Indian borrowings -- Astronomy -- The Early Period -- Astronomy in Enuma Anu Enlil -- The Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa -- Planetary theory in Enuma Anu Enlil -- Lunar and solar theory -- Tablet 14 and related texts -- "Astrolabes" or "Three Stars Each" Texts -- MUL. APIN -- Stars -- Planets -- Intercalation Schemes -- Shadow Table and Water Clock -- I. NAM. GIS. HUR. AN. KI. A -- Ziqpu star texts -- The GU Text -- The DAL. BA. AN. NA Text -- Time-keeping texts -- First millennium: Observations and Predictions -- Sargonid Period -- Observations and Predictions in Letters and Reports -- Other Contemporary Observations -- The Diaries -- Planets -- The Moon -- The Normal Stars -- The Sun -- Eclipses -- Excerpts from the Diaries -- Ptolemy's Use of the Diaries -- Normal Star Almanacs -- Almanacs -- Goal-Year texts -- Planets -- Eclipses -- Theoretical Texts -- Early Theoretical Texts, Solar and Lunar -- The "Saros" Cycle -- The Nineteen-year Cycle -- Solstices, Equinoxes, and Phases of Sirius -- Early Theoretical Texts, Planetary -- Period Relations -- Planetary Latitudes -- Subdivisions of Synodic Arcs.".
• catalog title "Astral sciences in Mesopotamia / by Hermann Hunger and David Pingree.".
• catalog type "text".