Babylonian Horoscopes
By: Francesca Rochberg.
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780871698810
Subjects: Akkadian language -- Texts.; Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian.
Description: Interpretations of heavenly phenomena as signs of the future was a Mesopotamian tradition of great antiquity. The practice of Babylonian celestial divination, spanning a period from ca. 1800 B.C. to Hellenistic times, is known in the form of celestial omens portending the life of the king and the stability of the state. Emerging for the first time in the fifth century B.C., horoscopes reflect the application of the ideal and practice of celestial divination to the life of the individual. This is the first complete edition of the extant cuneiform horoscopes--with transcription and philological and astronomical commentary. It is the first study to offer a systematic description of the documents as a definable class of Babylonian astronomical/astrological texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-154) and index.