Cuneiform Uranology Texts

Cuneiform Uranology Texts
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 9780871692740
ISBN-13 : 0871692740
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Download or read book Cuneiform Uranology Texts written by Eckart Frahm and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a newly recovered group of cuneiform texts from first millennium Babylonia and Assyria that provide prose descriptions of the drawing (eseru) of Mesopotamian constellations. Describes these constellations in terms of their parts: body parts for constellations in human or animal form, parts of a wagon for “The Wagon” and “The Wagon of Heaven” (the Big and Little Dipper), and so forth. The descriptions also typically speak of the clothing that constellations in human form wear, their beards if they are male, and paraphernalia that they hold or carry. In the case of “The Crab” and “The Wagon,” there is also reference to the Babylonian geometric shape apsamakku, a four-sided figure. Illustrations.


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