Babylonian Planetary Omens: Part Four

by Erica Reiner

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004142126
• ISBN13: 9789004142121
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"