Astral sciences in Mesopotamia / by Hermann Hunger and David Pingree.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunger, Hermann, 1942-

Contributor:

Pingree, David, 1933-2005.

Series:

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Erste Abteilung, 44. Bd.

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten ; 44. Bd. = Handbook of oriental studies. The Near and Middle East.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian.

Physical Description:

xviii, 303 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1999.

Contents:

Preliminaries ix

I. Omens 5

A. Second Millennium B.C. 7

1. Old Babylonian 7

2. Areas outside Babylonia 8

3. Middle-Babylonian and Middle-Assyrian 12

B. First Half of the First Millennium B.C. 12

1. Enuma Anu Enlil 12

2. Non-canonical 20

3. Commentaries and explanatory texts 21

4. Diviner's Manual 22

5. Letters and Reports 23

C. Second Half of the First Millennium B.C. 26

1. Proto-horoscopes 26

2. Hypsomata 28

3. Innovations 29

4. Genethlialogy 30

5. Egyptian borrowings 31

6. Indian borrowings 31

II. Astronomy 32

A. The Early Period 32

1. Astronomy in Enuma Anu Enlil 32

1. The Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa 32

2. Planetary theory in Enuma Anu Enlil 40

3. Lunar and solar theory 41

4. Tablet 14 and related texts 44

2. "Astrolabes" or "Three Stars Each" Texts 50

3. MUL.APIN 57

1. Stars 58

2. Planets 73

3. Intercalation Schemes 75

4. Shadow Table and Water Clock 79

4. I.NAM.GIS.HUR.AN.KI.A 83

5. Ziqpu star texts 84

6. The GU Text 90

7. The DAL.BA.AN.NA Text 100

8. Time-keeping texts 112

B. First millennium: Observations and Predictions 116

1. Sargonid Period 116

1. Observations and Predictions in Letters and Reports 116

2. Other Contemporary Observations 138

2. The Diaries 139

1. Planets 145

2. The Moon 147

3. The Normal Stars 148

4. The Sun 151

5. Eclipses 154

6. Excerpts from the Diaries 156

7. Ptolemy's Use of the Diaries 156

3. Normal Star Almanacs 159

4. Almanacs 162

5. Goal-Year texts 167

6. Planets 173

7. Eclipses 181

C. Theoretical Texts 183

1. Early Theoretical Texts, Solar and Lunar 183

1. The "Saros" Cycle 183

2. The Nineteen-year Cycle 199

3. Solstices, Equinoxes, and Phases of Sirius 200

2. Early Theoretical Texts, Planetary 203

1. Period Relations 203

2. Planetary Latitudes 205

3. Subdivisions of Synodic Arcs 206

3. Proto-procedure Texts 210

4. Mathematical Astronomy of the ACT Type 212

1. A Survey of the Literature before ACT 212

2. ACT and After 220

a. The Moon 221

b. The Planets 242.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004101276

OCLC:

41712083