A Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC: Edited with Introduction, Commentary, and Cuneiform Texts

by Frances Reynolds and Frances Reynolds

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This volume publishes in full for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of an Akkadian calendar treatise that is unified by the theme of Babylonia's invasion. It was composed in the milieu of Marduk's Esagil temple in Babylon, probably in the Hellenistic period before c. 170 BC. Esagil rituals are presented as essential to protect Babylonia, and specifically Marduk's principal cult statue, from foreign attack. The treatise builds the case...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199539944

ISBN13:9780199539949

Release Date:January 2020

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:496 Pages

Weight:4.05 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 8.5" x 10.9"

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A Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC: Edited with Introduction, Commentary, and Cuneiform Texts

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