LBAT 0146 + 0147 + 0148 (P363773)
Astral sciences tablet excavated in Babylon (mod. Bābil), dated to the Hellenistic (323-63 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UKMetadata / catalogue
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British Museum, London, UKMuseum Number
BM 034081 + BM 034622 + BM 34846 + BM 042816 + BM 045851 + BM 046135Period
Hellenistic (323-63 BC)Provenience
Babylon (mod. Bābil)Artifact Type
TabletMaterial(s)
ClayGenre / Subgenre(s)
Scholarly or scientific > Astral sciences (procedure Procedure text for Jupiter; mathematical rules for the area of a trapezoid; for the trapexoid cf ACT 817)Language(s)
AkkadianMeasurements
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- Artifact type: Tablet
- Material: Clay
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- Genre(s): Scholarly or scientific > Astral sciences (procedure Procedure text for Jupiter; mathematical rules for the area of a trapezoid; for the trapexoid cf ACT 817)
- Language(s): Akkadian
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primary: LBAT, 146 + 147 + 148
[Pinches1955LBAT] Pinches, Theophilus G., Johann N. Strassmaier, and Abraham J. Sachs. 1955. Late Babylonian Astronomical and Related Texts. Brown University Studies, Vol. 18. Providence, R.I.: Brown university press.
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history: ACT, 0813
[Neugebauer1955ACT] Neugebauer, Otto E. 1955. Astronomical Cuneiform Texts.
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history: Ossendrijver, BMAPT, no. 18
[Ossendrijver2012BMAPT] Ossendrijver, Mathieu. 2012. Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences . New York : Springer.
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history: Science 351 (2016) , 482-484 (text C)
[Ossendrijver2016Science351] Ossendrijver, Mathieu. 2016. “Ancient Babylonian Astronomers Calculated Jupiter’s Position from the Area under a Time- Velocity Graph,” Science, 351 (6272): 482–84.
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history: JNES 76 (pp. 231-247), 234, text G
[Ossendrijver2017JNES76] Ossendrijver, Mathieu. 2017. “New Results on a Babylonian Scheme for Jupiter’s Motion along the Zodiac.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 76: 231–47.
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history: JHA 34 (pp. 269-289), 269-289
[Steele2003JHA34] Steele, John M. 2003. “Planetary Latitudes in Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy,” Journal for the History of Astronomy, 34: 269–89.
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- Museum No.: BM 034081 + BM 034622 + BM 34846 + BM 042816 + BM 045851 + BM 046135
- Accession No.: Sp 0179 + Sp 2, 0102 + Sp 2, 0349 + 1881-07-01, 0580 + 1881-07-06, 0279 + 1881-07-06, 0590
- Provenience: Babylon (mod. Bābil)
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- Period: Hellenistic (323-63 BC)
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