Mesopotamia: A Neo-Babylonian Report on Seasonal Hours.

The article presents a transliteration and translation of the text of a tablet written in Neo-Babylonian script and dialect reporting on seasonal hours. Topics include a description of the table used to find intercalations as indicated in the tablet, the reconstruction of the table using the tablet...

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Publicado en:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 104; no. 3; pp. 67 - 73
Autores principales: Pingree, David, Reiner, Erica
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press 2014
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Sumario:The article presents a transliteration and translation of the text of a tablet written in Neo-Babylonian script and dialect reporting on seasonal hours. Topics include a description of the table used to find intercalations as indicated in the tablet, the reconstruction of the table using the tablet fragments K. 2077, K. 3771 and K. 11044, and the difficulties in the interpretation of the report, such as the occurrence of unique terms like ber qaqqar.