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 fig. 1 Figure 1, above : Sumerian. Venus Tablet of Ammis-aduqa, cuneiform copy in baked clay of a Bronze-Age document charting the appearances and |
disappearances of the planet Ishtar (Venus). Original at the Royal Library at Nineveh. Figure 2, top right : detail of figure 1. Figure 3, bottom right : Upper rows of a 5-tier stele representing the Akkadian pantheon. Row 1, right to left, top to bottom : Shamash (sun) ; Ishtar (8-pt star) ; Sin (crescent moon) ; Ninhursag (head of hair on an altar) ; Ea (ram’s |
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 head on a fish-goat) ; Anu and Enlil (tiaras on an altar). Row 2 : winged lion (?) ; Nergal (lion’s head on a pole) ; raven (?) ; Ninurta double standard upon a winged lion). |
Your first reading list :
On Caesar’s reform of the Roman calendar, here is a good succinct story.
I especially recommend this book by the Roman AW citizen Calpurnia Caesar on the subject of Caesar’s reform of the Roman calendar.
Here you have even more information on that history. Further details can be seen here.
On the discovery of the cycle of lunar eclipses, read this government-sponsored publication.
This article is quite remarkable despite its having been written by a barbarian. This one is good on the basics, as is this one.
Citizens and accompanied non-citizens might also like to visit this permanent exhibition on Mesopotamian Astrology.
Images :
Venus chart now in the British Museum. Akkadian stele from Sciences sumériennes at Secretbase.
