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Updating on 13/10/2009
Babylon / Mesopotamia astronomy
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Mesopotamia gave us : * the premisses of the spheric form with its parts and its metrology, * the half of Greek classic 44 constellations, * planet names taken up by Greeks, directly or via peoples of Syria or these of Aramaic Language.
Planisphère K 8538, Assurbanipal Library, Niniva, VIIth century BC, presenting 8 constellation diagrams. |
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Thamatic Files
| Birth of constellations in Mesopotamia by Roland Laffitte for URANOS, 2009. (in French) |
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Precisions on the mesopotamian origin of Aries, by Roland Laffitte, Cahiers de l’Institut d’Orient du Collège de France, I (2009), 101-108. (in French) |
Datas constellation by constellation
Zodiacal constellations
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Lu.HUNGA = Hired Man |
GU.AN.NA = Bull of Heaven (in French) | MASh.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL = Great Twins | AL.LUL = Crab |
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UR.GU.LA = Lion (in French) |
AB.SIN = [Barley] Ear / Furrow | ZI.BA.AN.NA = Scales | GIR.TAB = Scorpion |
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PA.BIL.SAG = [Archer] Pabilsag |
SUHUR.MASh = Carp-Goat | GULA = Great One | KUN.mesh = Tails |
Boreal constellations
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TE.mushen = Eagle (in French) |
GU.ALIM = Bison (in French) | ZA.BA.BA = Zababa (in French) | MAR.GID.DA = [Great] Wagon |
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U4.KA.DUH.A = Panther (in Fr.) |
Austral constellations
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SI.PA.ZI.AN.NA = True Shepherd of Anu (in French) |
GAG.SI.SA = Flèche & BAN = Arc (in French) | UR.IDIM = Chien enragé (in French) |
Bibliography on the net
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Gary D. Thompson, Australia |
http://members.optusnet.com.au/gtosiris/page3.html#Babylonian |
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Universiteit Utrecht |
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/babylon/babybibl_fixedstars.htm |
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Warburg Institute (London) |
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/mnemosyne/Orientation/astrobib/astro_biblio2.htm |
For more details, see the files belonging to the Scholars Space