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Babylonian Horoscopes (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society)

By Francesca Rochberg

Book information

Publisher
American Philosophical Society
Year
1998
ISBN
0871698811, 9780871698810
LCC
PJ3921.A8 R63 1998
Open Library ID
OL697396M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5425535 bytes)
Pages
164\173
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

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.

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