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

  1. 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.
  2. John M. Steele. Almanacs, Babylonian. 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Inc 7 FEB 2012 DOI: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah21017. Retrieved 2015-06-13.
  3. 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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