Celestial divination was an important aspect of scholarly activity in Mesopota- mia. Several hundred cuneiform tablets attest to its practice and provide details of the different types of omens that were drawn from observations of the sky. This chapter outlines the sources of celestial divination in Mesopotamia and traces the development of the divinatory tradition from the late third millennium BC down to the end of the first millennium BC.
Mesopotamian Celestial Divination / Verderame, Lorenzo. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 1835-1839. [10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_188].
Mesopotamian Celestial Divination
VERDERAME, Lorenzo
2014
Abstract
Celestial divination was an important aspect of scholarly activity in Mesopota- mia. Several hundred cuneiform tablets attest to its practice and provide details of the different types of omens that were drawn from observations of the sky. This chapter outlines the sources of celestial divination in Mesopotamia and traces the development of the divinatory tradition from the late third millennium BC down to the end of the first millennium BC.File allegati a questo prodotto
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