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PLANETS IN MESOPOTAMIAN SOURCES OF THE THIRD AND SECOND MILLENNIA BC

PII
S0205-96060000616-4-1
DOI
10.31857/S60000616-4-1
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
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Volume/ Edition
Volume 36 / Issue 3
Pages
455-473
Abstract
Observations of Venus as the morning and the evening star were taken already in the archaic Uruk at the end of the fourth millennium BC. The paper further analyzes representations of Venus in glyptic sources of the third millennium and planetary records dating from the second millennium BC. There are indications that all five planets visible to naked eye were known, but the most reliable planetary records of the Old Babylonian Period refer to Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. Synodic events of Venus were observed during the king Ammisaduqa's reign. Additional planetary data can be found in the texts of the latter half of the second millennium BC - the “Astrolabes” and the astrological series Enuma Anu Enlil.
Keywords
astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia, planets, observations of Venus during the Old Babylonian Period
Date of publication
01.07.2015
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1
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1178

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