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Astrological Texts from Late Babylonian Uruk

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About 60 Late Babylonian astrological tablets were found in Uruk. Many of them belonged to the scholar Iqišâ (end of the 4th century BCE). The tablets are discussed according to text type, and some sections quoted. The relations to tablets from Babylon with the same or similar contents are described.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    There is a list of scholarly tablets, including astronomy and astrology , on the website of the project ‘Corpus of Ancient Mesopotamian Scholarship’ (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/cams/gkab/).

  2. 2.

    Scholarly libraries were discussed several times in the recent past; see in particular Clancier (2009).

  3. 3.

    See further the introduction to this volume by Proust and Steele.

  4. 4.

    See Chap. 2 by Gabbay and Jiménez in this volume.

  5. 5.

    George (1995).

  6. 6.

    Boiy (2011).

  7. 7.

    Rutz (2014).

  8. 8.

    Kessler (2004).

  9. 9.

    The tablet is edited in Hunger (1995).

  10. 10.

    Frahm (2011) calls such commentaries ‘cola type’.

  11. 11.

    Al-Rawi and George (2006: 55–57).

  12. 12.

    Weidner (1941–1944, pl. vi).

  13. 13.

    Sachs (1952: 65–74).

  14. 14.

    Hunger (1996).

  15. 15.

    Hunger (1976).

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement No. 269804, Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World.

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Hunger, H. (2019). Astrological Texts from Late Babylonian Uruk. In: Proust, C., Steele, J. (eds) Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk. Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04176-2_5

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