Cuneiform Uranology Texts: Drawing the Constellations, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 107, Part 2)

by Paul-Alain Beaulieu

Presents a newly recovered group of cuneiform texts from first millennium Babylonia and Assyria that provide prose descriptions of the drawing (eseru) of Mesopotamian constellations. Describes these constellations in terms of their parts: body parts for constellations in human or animal form, parts of a wagon for "The Wagon" and "The Wagon of Heaven" (the Big and Little Dipper), and so forth. The descriptions also typically speak of the clothing that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160618072X
• ISBN13: 9781606180723
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 132 Pages