| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 315 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; volume 100
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Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 100.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
The early history of the astronomical diaries / John Steele -- Babylonian market predictions / Mathieu Ossendrijver -- Logging history in Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Parthian Babylonia : historical entries in dated astronomical diaries / Christopher Tuplin -- Who wrote the Babylonian astronomical diaries? / Eleanor Robson -- The astronomical diaries and religion in Seleucid and Parthian Babylon : the case of the prophet of Nanaya / Lucinda Dirven -- The museum context of the astronomical diaries / Reinhard Pirngruber -- From Babylon to Batar : the geography of the astronomical diaries / Kathryn Stevens -- Royal presence in the astronomical diaries / Marijn Visscher -- History and historiography in the early Parthian diaries / Johannes Haubold -- The relationship between Greco-Macedonian citizens and the "Council of Elders" in the Arsacid period : new evidence from astronomical diary BM 35269 + 35347 + 35358 / Yasuyuki Mitsuma. |
| Summary |
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 phenomena as well as the economy and history of Mesopotamia and surrounding regions. The volume asks who the scholars were, what motivated them to 'keep watch in Babylon' and how their approach changed in the course of the collection's long history. Contributors come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Assyriology, Classics, ancient history, the history of science and the history of religion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian.
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Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian. |
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Astronomy, Ancient.
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Astronomy, Ancient. |
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SCIENCE -- Astronomy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Haubold, Johannes, editor.
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Steele, John M., editor.
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Stevens, Kathryn, 1986- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Keeping watch in Babylon. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019 9789004397750 (DLC) 2019003799 |
| ISBN |
9789004397767 (electronic book) |
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9004397760 (electronic book) |
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9789004397750 (hardcover) |
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9004397752 (hardcover) |
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