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

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

Frahm, Eckart
Steele, John
Beaulieu, Paul-Alain

Hardcover

Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Book 47

Astronomy & Space

ISBN10: 160618072X
ISBN13: 9781606180723
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: Jan 1 2018
Pages: 132
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.38 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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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