A Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 1243
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
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- Title of edition
- A Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199539949
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book publishes for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of a Late Babylonian Akkadian calendar treatise from Babylon. Hand-drawn copies of the tablets and an editio princeps of the treatise with English translation make this work fully accessible for the first time. A wide-ranging contextual introduction extends across disciplines, including Assyriology, classics, Biblical studies, and history of science. A detailed commentary adds to our understanding of Akkadian, especially scholarly terminology. The book sheds new light on Babylonian cult, astronomy-astrology, historiography, and mythology. It changes our understanding of the priorities and practices of cuneiform scholars in Hellenistic Babylon.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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