State Archives Of Assyria Studies Volume Xxii The Babylonian Astrolabe The Calendar Of Creation

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  1 State Archives of Assyria Studies Volume XXII THE BABYLONIAN ASTROLABE THE CALENDAR OF CREATION by Rumen K. Kolev Project Director: Simo Parpola; Publisher: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project - NATCP; WEB (State Archives of Assyria Studies): http://www.helsinki./science/saa/saas.html Publication info: Published in July 2013; Bibliographic info: Pp. xxii + 298; 193 illustrations; 53 tables; Language(s): English; Cover: Paper; Trim Size: 7 x 10 inches; Price: $79.50; ISBN: 952-10-1345-1, ISBN13: 978-952-10-1345-4; Distributor: Eisenbrauns Inc. POB 275 Winona Lake, IN 46590-0275, USA · Phone (574) 269-2011 · Fax (574) 269-6788. Order from: WEB (EISENBRAUNS): https://www.eisenbrauns.com (See next page for details).Order from (Direct access): http://www.eisenbrauns.com/item/KOLBABYLO  BRIEF DESCRIPTION Complete analysis of the Babylonian Astrolabe  –   the most ancient and sacred of all astrological texts of Mesopotamia. Extensive and rigorous astronomical dating of the four different layers of information coming from 5500 BC, 2300 BC, 1300 BC and 700 BC. First time translations and explanation of four Akkadian astrological-astronomical texts: the dodekatemoria micro-zodiac text LBAT 1499, the omina text K 3119, the quasi-astrolabe CT 33 Pl. 9 and lunar omina from ACh Sîn IV: 11-20.Complete translations from Akkadian of Astrolabe ‘B’ and the circular Astrolabe. Detailed Appendix explaining the heliacal phases. 255 personal observations of actual heliacal phases of planets and stars recorded with details of time, place and atmospheric extinction. The mathematical algorithm for their computation. The Babylonian xed zodiac. The 36 Astrolabe divinities. The Original System of the ancient Mesopotamian Astrology explained.  2  HOW TO ORDER You can go directly to the page dedicated to the book by the link: http://www.eisenbrauns.com/item/KOLBABYLOOr ... you can go to: https://www.eisenbrauns.com Type in the dark-blue SEARCH FIELD ‘Rumen Kolev’ and click on the button ‘SEARCH’. This will show up: Now click on the name of the book (in blue) to arrive at the page with information:  3 You can go directly to this page also by the link: http://www.eisenbrauns.com/item/KOLBABYLO  Another way, much more difcult though, is to go to  https://www.eisenbrauns.com then    go to Books / Browse by .. / Book Series .. click on the letter   ‘S’ and     go to  State Archives of Assyria Studies. The  book should be somewhere in the end of the list. ‘PLACIDUS RESEARCH CENTER’ www.babylonianastrology.com; p ά nta 7 p ᾶ si