Babylonian planetary Omens. Part four / Erica Reiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reiner, Erica, 1924-2005, author.

Series:

Cuneiform Monographs ; 30.

Cuneiform Monographs ; 30

Standardized Title:

Enuma Anu Enlil. Selections. English & Akkadian

Language:

Akkadian

English

Subjects (All):

Akkadian language--Texts.

Akkadian language.

Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian.

Omens.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2005]

Summary:

This volume presents an edition of first-millennium BC Babylonian cuneiform texts that comprise Chapters 64 and 65 of the compendium of celestial omen texts dealing with the appearance and movements of the planet Jupiter. All are accompanied by an English translation. David Pingree has again provided an extensive introduction and astronomical commentary, in which he discusses the astronomical plausibility of the phenomena that are described in the omens. The textual material and its astronomical interpretation throws light on the extent of the Babylonian scholars' knowledge of astronomy and furnishes another argument in the debate about observation versus scribal tradition in the description of these phenomena.

Contents:

pt. 1. Enūma Anu Enlil tablet 63, the Venus tablet of Ammiṣaduqa.

pt. 2. Enūma Anu Enlil, tablets 50-51

pt. 3. [no special title]

pt. 4. [no special title].

Notes:

Selections from the Enuma Anu Enlil in Akkadian and English, with English commentary.

Vol. 3 published: Groningen : Styx.

Vol. 4 published: Brill : Styx.

Vols. 1-2 lack 2nd series statement; v. 3-4 lack 1st series statement.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-474-1560-4

OCLC:

624470115

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047415602 DOI