The cuneiform uranology texts
Subtitle: drawing the constellations
By: Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Eckart Frahm, Wayne Horowitz, John Steele
Series: Transactions series; Transactions series
Publisher: the American Philosophical Society
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781606180723
Subjects: Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian; Ancient Astronomy; Cuneiform writing
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The simple group; title: The expanded version; title: A three-constellation version; title: The cuneiform uranology texts : looking forward; title: Appendix A. Star guide; title: Appendix B. BM 66958 side B; title: Appendix C. The late Babylonian fragment MLC 1884