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Subject(s)

• Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian [Browse]
• Astronomy, Ancient [Browse]
• Cuneiform writing [Browse]

Author

• Frahm, Eckart [Browse]
• Horowitz, Wayne, 1957- [Browse]
• Steele, John M. [Browse]

Series

• Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 107, part 2. [More in this series]
• Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 0065-9746 ; volume 107, part 2 [More in this series]

Summary note

The cuneiform uranology texts : drawing the constellations, presents a newly recovered group of cuneiform texts from first millennium Babylonia and Assyria that provide prose descriptions of the drawing of Mesopotamian constellations--Chapter 1.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction
• The simple group
• The expanded version
• A three-constellation version
• The cuneiform uranology texts : looking forward
• Appendix A. Star guide
• Appendix B. BM 66958 side B
• Appendix C. The late Babylonian fragment MLC 1884.

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ISBN

• 9781606180723
• 160618072X

LCCN

2018015145

OCLC

1031408784

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