Almanac W22340a From Uruk
The Latest Datable Cuneiform Tablet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20325623 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hermann Hunger (University of Vienna, corresponding author), T De Jong (0000-0003-0902-2778, Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-5299 • E-ISSN: 1613-1150 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/za-2014-0015 |
| OpenAlex | W2321072882 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In this article we present a transliteration and translation of Tablet W22340a, an astronomical Almanac from Uruk. Based on the astronomical predictions in the text we suggest that it must be dated to the year 326 in the Arsacid Era, equivalent to 79/80 AD. This makes W22340a the latest datable cuneiform text uncovered so far. This dating confirms that cuneiform writing and astronomical scholarship persisted in Mesopotamia during the Arsacid period far into the first century AD, not only in Babylon but in Uruk as well
Ancient history · Cuneiform · Linguistics · Mesopotamia · Political science · Scholarship · Transliteration · Ancient Near East History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |