The cuneiform uranology texts : drawing the constellations / Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Eckart Frahm, Wayne Horowitz, John Steele.

The cuneiform uranology texts : drawing the constellations, presents a newly recovered group of cuneiform texts from first millennium Babylonia and Assyria that provide prose descriptions of the drawing of Mesopotamian constellations--Chapter 1.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 107, pt. 2.
Main Authors: Beaulieu, Paul-Alain (Author)
Frahm, Eckart (Author)
Horowitz, Wayne, 1957- (Author)
Steele, John M. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : the American Philosophical Society, [2018]
Series:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 107, pt. 2.
Subjects:
Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian.
Astronomy, Ancient.
Cuneiform writing.
Physical Description:ix, 121 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The simple group
  • The expanded version
  • A three-constellation version
  • The cuneiform uranology texts : looking forward
  • Appendix A. Star guide
  • Appendix B. BM 66958 side B
  • Appendix C. The late Babylonian fragment MLC 1884.