Babylonian · 3rd–1st centuries BCE

Goal-Year Texts

ADART Vol. VI

Compilations prepared for a target ('goal') year. For each planet they copy the diary observations from one characteristic period earlier, because its phenomena recur near the same calendar date after that period: Jupiter 71 and 83 years, Venus 8, Mercury 46, Saturn 59, Mars 79 and 47. For Jupiter and Mars the excerpts explicitly include the first and second stations, and the texts were used to predict the phenomena listed in the Almanacs.

Author: Anonymous (Babylonian scribes)
Date: 3rd–1st centuries BCE
Original language: Akkadian (Late Babylonian)
Kind: Observation record
Planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

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Editions

2 editions.

Year	Edition	©
2006	H. Hunger, Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. VI: Goal Year Texts, including materials by A. J. Sachs (Vienna: ÖAW, 2006), xviii + 471 pp. with 73 plates, ISBN 978-3-7001-3727-6	©
2009	J. M. K. Gray, A Study of Babylonian Goal-Year Planetary Astronomy (PhD thesis, Durham University, 2009), Durham E-Theses id 101	?

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References

J. M. Steele, review of ADART VI, Aestimatio 4 (2007) 144–147

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