Babylonian Liver Omens
Babylonian Liver Omens

Author: Ulla Susanne Koch

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 9788772896205

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The Babylonians were famous even in their own time for their expertise in divination, and Koch-Westenholz suggests the lack of modern scholarship from the extensive written record is because the texts are dry, monotonous, and difficult to access and because divination is thought to be simple superstition not worth serious study. She makes a beginning on the accessibility problem by presenting three texts on interpreting sheep livers as the first of a projected complete series on the divinatory texts from the world's oldest extant general library. The edition is based on a catalogue, compiled by Ulla Jeyes as part of what was to be a collaboration on the project before Jeyes' untimely death, of the collections in the British Museum. The original inscriptions are followed by transcription and English translation. Tablets are illustrated in 48 photographic plates. Livers not included. Distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.

Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War
Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War

Author: Krzysztof Ulanowski

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 9004429395

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Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War is about practices which enabled humans contact the divine. These relations, especially in difficult times of military conflict, could be crucial in deciding the fate of individuals, cities, dynasties or even empires.

Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia
Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia

Author: Hermann Hunger

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-11-02

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 9004294139

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Astronomy and astrology, or the astral sciences, played an enormous, if not a key role in the political and religious life of the Ancient Near East, and, later, of the Greek and Roman world. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the origins of the astral sciences in the Ancient Near East. Every type of Sumerian or Akkadian text dealing with descriptive or mathematical astronomy, including many individual tablets are thoroughly dealt with. All aspects, such as the history of discovery, reconstruction, and interpretation come to the fore, accompanied by a full bibliography. At that the reader will find descriptions of astronomical contents, an explanation of their scientific meaning and the place a given genre or tablet has in the development of astronomy both within the Mesopotamian culture and outside of it. Because celestial omens are intimately related to astronomy in Mesopotamian science, these are also discussed extensively. The material is arranged both chronologically and thematically, so as to help make Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia a reference work on the subject in its truest sense.

Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria
Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria

Author: Lewis Spence

Publisher:

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13:

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A collection of Babylonian and Assyrian myths and legends, including various analogues of the biblical flood story and discussions of the history of Babylon and Assyria, and descriptions of various forms of Babylonian worship, Assyrian cults, and archaeological excavation of Babylonian and Assyrian sites.

Divining the Etruscan World
Divining the Etruscan World

Author: Jean MacIntosh Turfa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-07-16

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1139536400

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The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text, especially the Etruscans' concerns regarding the environment, food, health and disease. Jean MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of its predictions, thereby creating a picture of the complexity of Etruscan society reaching back before the advent of writing and the recording of the calendar.

Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World
Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World

Author: Amar Annus

Publisher: Oriental Inst Publications Sales

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 9781885923684

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The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, is found in all ancient cultures, but was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively influenced other parts of the world, and similar texts written in Aramaic, Sanscrit, Sogdian, and other languages. The seminar will investigate how much do we know about the Babylonian theory and hermeneutics of omens, and the scope of their possible influences on other cultures and regions.

Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance
Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance

Author: Morris Jastrow

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-07-31

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance" by Morris Jastrow. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Hellenistic Astronomy
Hellenistic Astronomy

Author: Alan C. Bowen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-02-17

Total Pages: 783

ISBN-13: 9004400567

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In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.