Mesopotamian star lists

Wayne Horowitz

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_187

Mesopotamian star lists

Wayne Horowitz^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute of Archaeology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Sumerian and Akkadian names of stars and constellations occur in cuneiform texts for over 2,000 years, from the third millennium BC down to the death of cuneiform in the early first millennium AD, but no fully comprehensive list was ever compiled in antiquity. Lists of stars and constellations are available in both the lexical tradition and astronomical-astrological tradition of the cuneiform scribes. The longest list in the former is that in the series Urra ¼ hubullu, in the latter, those in Mul-Apin.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy
Publisher	Springer New York
Pages	1829-1834
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781461461418
ISBN (Print)	9781461461401
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_187
State	Published - 1 Jan 2015

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015.

Access to Document

10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_187

Cite this

@inbook{288eb047b0684fab9d7445344faa8312,

title = "Mesopotamian star lists",

abstract = "Sumerian and Akkadian names of stars and constellations occur in cuneiform texts for over 2,000 years, from the third millennium BC down to the death of cuneiform in the early first millennium AD, but no fully comprehensive list was ever compiled in antiquity. Lists of stars and constellations are available in both the lexical tradition and astronomical-astrological tradition of the cuneiform scribes. The longest list in the former is that in the series Urra ¼ hubullu, in the latter, those in Mul-Apin.",

author = "Wayne Horowitz",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015.",

year = "2015",

month = jan,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_187",

language = "אנגלית",

isbn = "9781461461401",

pages = "1829--1834",

booktitle = "Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy",

publisher = "Springer New York",

address = "ארצות הברית",

}

TY - CHAP

T1 - Mesopotamian star lists

AU - Horowitz, Wayne

PY - 2015/1/1

Y1 - 2015/1/1

N2 - Sumerian and Akkadian names of stars and constellations occur in cuneiform texts for over 2,000 years, from the third millennium BC down to the death of cuneiform in the early first millennium AD, but no fully comprehensive list was ever compiled in antiquity. Lists of stars and constellations are available in both the lexical tradition and astronomical-astrological tradition of the cuneiform scribes. The longest list in the former is that in the series Urra ¼ hubullu, in the latter, those in Mul-Apin.

AB - Sumerian and Akkadian names of stars and constellations occur in cuneiform texts for over 2,000 years, from the third millennium BC down to the death of cuneiform in the early first millennium AD, but no fully comprehensive list was ever compiled in antiquity. Lists of stars and constellations are available in both the lexical tradition and astronomical-astrological tradition of the cuneiform scribes. The longest list in the former is that in the series Urra ¼ hubullu, in the latter, those in Mul-Apin.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84945434255&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_187

DO - 10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_187

M3 - ???researchoutput.researchoutputtypes.contributiontobookanthology.chapter???

AN - SCOPUS:84945434255

SN - 9781461461401

SP - 1829

EP - 1834

BT - Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy

PB - Springer New York

ER -

Mesopotamian star lists

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this