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Cuneiform Descriptions of Transient Phenomena
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2020
Abstract
Sources from Ancient Mesopotamia contain mention of transient astronomical phenomena in two contexts: in records of observations, many of which can be dated, and in collections of omens, which use the appearance of such phenomena to predict future events. These omens consider quite a range of phenomena, but only rarely can they be dated in a precise way. This paper describes how transient phenomena were handled in both kinds of context.
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- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium A30: Astronomy in Focus XXX , August 2018 , pp. 167 - 170
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