Cuneiform Uranology Texts: Drawing the Constellations, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 107, Part 2): 47 - Tapa dura

Frahm, Eckart; Steele, John; Beaulieu, Paul-Alain; Horowitz, Wayne

 
9781606180723: Cuneiform Uranology Texts: Drawing the Constellations, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 107, Part 2): 47
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ISBN 10: 160618072X ISBN 13: 9781606180723
Editorial: American Philosophical Society Press, 2018

Sinopsis

Presents a newly recovered group of cuneiform texts from first millennium Babylonia and Assyria that provide prose descriptions of the drawing (eseru) of Mesopotamian constellations. Describes these constellations in terms of their parts: body parts for constellations in human or animal form, parts of a wagon for "The Wagon" and "The Wagon of Heaven" (the Big and Little Dipper), and so forth. The descriptions also typically speak of the clothing that constellations in human form wear, their beards if they are male, and paraphernalia that they hold or carry. In the case of "The Crab" and "The Wagon," there is also reference to the Babylonian geometric shape apsamakku, a four-sided figure. Illustrations.

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American Philosophical Society Press
Año de publicación
2018
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ISBN 10 
160618072X
ISBN 13 
9781606180723
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