The Continued Relevance of MUL.APIN in Late Babylonian Astronomy
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John Steele
Abstract
The astronomical compendium MUL.APIN was composed sometime before the seventh century BC and is known from many copies dating between the Neo-Assyrian and the Seleucid period. In this paper I argue that MUL.APIN continued to be read and understood throughout this period, and that there was still an active tradition of astronomy founded upon MUL.APIN until the end of cuneiform astronomy.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Scholars, Priests, and Temples: Babylonian and Egyptian Science in Context. Introduction
- Part I. Priests, scholars, and their communities
- Charming Snakes (and Kings), from Egypt to Persia
- The Descendants of the Sîn-lēqi-unnīnī during the Late Achaemenid and Early Hellenistic Periods – A Family of Priests, Scribes and Scholars and Their Archival and Learned Texts
- Priestly Scholars in Late Egypt: The Theoretical Side
- Stellar Scientists: The Egyptian Temple Astrologers
- Part II. Developments in scholarship
- Berossus and the Creation Story
- From Tablet to Talmud: Canonised Knowledge in Late Antiquity
- The Religious Sciences in Ancient Egypt
- Egyptian Scholars, Priests and Temples between Autonomy and State Authority
- Weather Prediction in Babylonia
- The Continued Relevance of MUL.APIN in Late Babylonian Astronomy
- Writing History Under Empire: The Babylonian Chronicle Reconsidered
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Scholars, Priests, and Temples: Babylonian and Egyptian Science in Context. Introduction
- Part I. Priests, scholars, and their communities
- Charming Snakes (and Kings), from Egypt to Persia
- The Descendants of the Sîn-lēqi-unnīnī during the Late Achaemenid and Early Hellenistic Periods – A Family of Priests, Scribes and Scholars and Their Archival and Learned Texts
- Priestly Scholars in Late Egypt: The Theoretical Side
- Stellar Scientists: The Egyptian Temple Astrologers
- Part II. Developments in scholarship
- Berossus and the Creation Story
- From Tablet to Talmud: Canonised Knowledge in Late Antiquity
- The Religious Sciences in Ancient Egypt
- Egyptian Scholars, Priests and Temples between Autonomy and State Authority
- Weather Prediction in Babylonia
- The Continued Relevance of MUL.APIN in Late Babylonian Astronomy
- Writing History Under Empire: The Babylonian Chronicle Reconsidered
