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An edition of Babylonian Horoscopes (1998)

Babylonian Horoscopes

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.

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English
Pages
180

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Babylonian Horoscopes
1998, American Philosophical Society
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-154) and index.

Published in
Philadelphia
Series
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
492/.1
Library of Congress
PJ3921.A8 R63 1998, PJ3921.A8R63 1998

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xi, 164 p. :
Number of pages
180

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL697396M
Internet Archive
babylonianhorosc00roch
ISBN 10
0871698811
ISBN 13
9780871698810
LCCN
97044943
OCLC/WorldCat
37928510
Library Thing
430395
Goodreads
5030854

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