Babylonian Almanac
Babylonian Almanac is a source of information for predictions, i.e. an almanac, made for astronomical phenomena for the specific years contained within it.[1][2]
The work comes entirely from manuscripts, of which fifty-two were discovered, of these, there are significant variations in certain lines of the ancient texts.[3]
References
- ↑ Khalid Salim Isma'El and A. R. George. Tablets from the Sippar Library XI. The Babylonian Almanac. British Institute for the Study of Iraq in Iraq Volume 64 (2002), pp. 249-258 DOI: 10.2307/4200527. JSTOR 4200527.
- ↑ John M. Steele. Almanacs, Babylonian. 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Inc 7 FEB 2012 DOI: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah21017. Retrieved 2015-06-13.
- ↑ Wilfred G. Lambert, A. R. George, Irving L. Finkel - Wisdom, Gods and Literature: Studies in Assyriology in Honour of W.G. Lambert Eisenbrauns, 2000, 462 pages, ISBN 1575060043 Retrieved 2015-06-13
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