Additional MUL.Apin Fragments in the British Museum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6077678 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeanette C Fincke (0000-0002-6189-0815, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 247-260 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cuneiform Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0256 • E-ISSN: 2325-6737 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5615/jcunestud.69.2017.0247 |
| OpenAlex | W2629263598 |
| Language | EN |
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 Babylonian fragments that have already been used in the edition
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques · History
| Highly cited | No |
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