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This volume of collected essays, the first of its kind in any language, investigates the Astronomical Diaries from ancient Babylon, a collection of almost 1000 clay tablets which, over a period of some five hundred years (6th century to 1st century BCE), record observations of selected astronomical phenomena as well as the economy and history of Mesopotamia and surrounding regions. The volume asks who the scholars were, what motivated them to ‘keep watch in Babylon’ and how their approach changed in the course of the collection’s long history. Contributors come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Assyriology, Classics, ancient history, the history of science and the history of religion.

Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Astronomy, Ancient. --- Ancient astronomy --- Assyro-Babylonian astronomy --- Babylonian astronomy --- Chaldean astronomy

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Akkadian language --- -Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian --- Assyro-Babylonian astronomy --- Babylonian astronomy --- Chaldean astronomy --- Accadian language --- Assyrian language --- Assyro-Babylonian language --- Babylonian language --- Semitic languages --- Texts

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This volume presents an edition of first-millennium BC Babylonian cuneiform texts that comprise Chapters 64 and 65 of the compendium of celestial omen texts dealing with the appearance and movements of the planet Jupiter. All are accompanied by an English translation. David Pingree has again provided an extensive introduction and astronomical commentary, in which he discusses the astronomical plausibility of the phenomena that are described in the omens. The textual material and its astronomical interpretation throws light on the extent of the Babylonian scholars' knowledge of astronomy and furnishes another argument in the debate about observation versus scribal tradition in the description of these phenomena.

Akkadian language --- Astronomy --- Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian --- Omens --- history --- Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols --- Assyro-Babylonian astronomy --- Babylonian astronomy --- Chaldean astronomy

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Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Astronomy - General --- Assyro-Babylonian astrology --- Assyro-Babylonian astronomy --- Babylonian astronomy --- Chaldean astronomy --- Astronomy, Greek.

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Akkadian language --- Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Omens. --- Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian --- Omens --- Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols --- Assyro-Babylonian astronomy --- Babylonian astronomy --- Chaldean astronomy --- Ammisaduqa, --- Venus (Planet) --- Observations.