MESOPOTAMIAN ASTRONOMERS INTRODUCTION OF THE ZODIAC AS THE BAND OF CONSTELLATIONS

Kurtik, Gennady

MESOPOTAMIAN ASTRONOMERS' INTRODUCTION OF THE ZODIAC AS THE BAND OF CONSTELLATIONS

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S0205-96060000616-4-1

DOI

10.31857/S60000616-4-1

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Article

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Published

Authors

Gennady Kurtik

Volume/ Edition

Volume 33 / Issue 1

Pages

23-32

Abstract

This essay analyzes the earliest history of the zodiac in Mesopotamian astronomy with the help of cuneiform sources on constellations dating from the second millennium BCE, the scholarly «memoirs» and «reports» to Assyrian kings of the 7th century BCE, and the defi nition of the zodiac in MUL.APIN. There is no reason to assume that zodiacal constellations played any special role in Mesopotamian astronomy during the second millennium BCE. During the Neo-Assyrian period, however, the zodiac was already known as the band of constellations, as evident from the observations of the Moon and planets relative to the zodiac and from the MUL.APIN text.

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Date of publication

01.01.2012

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GOST	Kurtik G. MESOPOTAMIAN ASTRONOMERS' INTRODUCTION OF THE ZODIAC AS THE BAND OF CONSTELLATIONS // Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki. – 2012. – V. 33. – Issue 1 C. 23-32 .
MLA	Kurtik, Gennady "MESOPOTAMIAN ASTRONOMERS' INTRODUCTION OF THE ZODIAC AS THE BAND OF CONSTELLATIONS." Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki. 33.1 (2012).:23-32.
APA	Kurtik G. (2012). MESOPOTAMIAN ASTRONOMERS' INTRODUCTION OF THE ZODIAC AS THE BAND OF CONSTELLATIONS. Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki. vol. 33, no. 1, pp.23-32

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