Jeanette C Fincke
Biographic Data
| ID | 4101300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanette C Fincke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanette C |
| FAMILY NAME | Fincke |
| SIGNATURE | FINCKE J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6189-0815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Middle Babylonian Tablet with alamdimmû aḫû-Omens from the Rania Plain Dating to Kurigalzu (I/II) and Its Implications for the Tradition of alamdimmû and Other Omen Series
The article presents a new tablet with physiognomic omens from the series Alamdimmû, alledgedly found at the site of Qara Tepe Kon in Iraqi Kurdistan
New Information about the ziqpu -Stars, the Sun, and Cubits Based on one New Tablet (BM 37373) and Some Previously Known Texts
Additional MUL.Apin Fragments in the British Museum
The edition of the series MUL.APIN by Hermann Hunger and David Pingree (1989) granted modern scholars access to the rather objective descriptions of the stars, the intercalation scheme and the lengths of days and nights compiled by Mesopotamian astronomers in the first millennium BCE. This article provides the publication of three more Neo-Assyrian exemplars from Nineveh, and joins made by Enrique Jiménez, Irving Finkel, and me to two Late Babylo…
BM 46550 – a Late Babylonian Mathematical Tablet with Computations of Reciprocal Numbers
The mathematical tablet BM 46550 offers the first evidence that a method for computing and verifying reciprocal numbers, thus far attested only in the Old Babylonian era, continued to be applied, in a similar manner, in the Neo- or Late Babylonian era. At least part of the tablet was computed on the spot, some of the columns being written from bottom to top. The mathematical tables are accompanied by an unusual drawing, apparently unrelated to th…
The Seventh Tablet of theRikis GerriSeries ofEnūma Anu Enlil
“If a Star Changes into Ashes…” A Sequence of Unusual Celestial Omens
A sequence of omens has puzzled Assyriologists since 1866, when Henry C. Rawlinson published the first copy of these peculiar divinatory texts. The omens have the structure DIŠ MUL ana ... GUR, “If a star turns into ...”, where the object into which the star changes can be an animal, metal, stone or some other item. Such a change has been held to belong to the field of dreams or, more generally, to terrestrial events rather than to astronomy. In …
Zu den Akkadischen Hemerologien aus Ḫattuša (CTH 546), Teil II
Zu den akkadischen Hemerologien aus Hattuša ( CTH 546), Teil I. Eine Hemerologie für das "Rufen von Klagen" ( šigû šasû ) und das "Reinigen seines Gewandes" ( ṣubāt-su ubbubu )
The British Museum's Ashurbanipal Library Project
The British Museum's Ashurbanipal Library Project
Zu den akkadischen Hemerologien aus Hattuša ( CTH 546), Teil I. Eine Hemerologie für das "Rufen von Klagen" ( šigû šasû ) und das "Reinigen seines Gewandes" ( ṣubāt-su ubbubu )
Zu den Akkadischen Hemerologien aus Ḫattuša (CTH 546), Teil II
“If a Star Changes into Ashes…” A Sequence of Unusual Celestial Omens
A sequence of omens has puzzled Assyriologists since 1866, when Henry C. Rawlinson published the first copy of these peculiar divinatory texts. The omens have the structure DIŠ MUL ana ... GUR, “If a star turns into ...”, where the object into which the star changes can be an animal, metal, stone or some other item. Such a change has been held to belong to the field of dreams or, more generally, to terrestrial events rather than to astronomy. In …
The Seventh Tablet of theRikis GerriSeries ofEnūma Anu Enlil
BM 46550 – a Late Babylonian Mathematical Tablet with Computations of Reciprocal Numbers
The mathematical tablet BM 46550 offers the first evidence that a method for computing and verifying reciprocal numbers, thus far attested only in the Old Babylonian era, continued to be applied, in a similar manner, in the Neo- or Late Babylonian era. At least part of the tablet was computed on the spot, some of the columns being written from bottom to top. The mathematical tables are accompanied by an unusual drawing, apparently unrelated to th…
Additional MUL.Apin Fragments in the British Museum
The edition of the series MUL.APIN by Hermann Hunger and David Pingree (1989) granted modern scholars access to the rather objective descriptions of the stars, the intercalation scheme and the lengths of days and nights compiled by Mesopotamian astronomers in the first millennium BCE. This article provides the publication of three more Neo-Assyrian exemplars from Nineveh, and joins made by Enrique Jiménez, Irving Finkel, and me to two Late Babylo…
New Information about the ziqpu -Stars, the Sun, and Cubits Based on one New Tablet (BM 37373) and Some Previously Known Texts
A Middle Babylonian Tablet with alamdimmû aḫû-Omens from the Rania Plain Dating to Kurigalzu (I/II) and Its Implications for the Tradition of alamdimmû and Other Omen Series
The article presents a new tablet with physiognomic omens from the series Alamdimmû, alledgedly found at the site of Qara Tepe Kon in Iraqi Kurdistan
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