Babylonian Horoscopes

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American Philosophical Society, 1998 - 164 páginas
Emerging for the first time in the 5th cent. B.C., horoscopes reflect the application of the idea and practice of celestial divination to the life of the individual. Whereas an omen focuses on a single astronomical phenomenon, the horoscope takes into account the positions of the moon, sun, and five planets at the moment of a birth. As such, Babylonian horoscopes presuppose the concept of the ecliptic and a methodology for obtaining the positions of heavenly bodies when they are not observable. This is the first complete edition of the extant cuneiform horoscopes -- with transcription and philological and astronomical commentary. This study offers a systematic description of the documents as a definable class of Babylonian astronomical/astrological texts.
 

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Página 12 - G. OFFNER, A propos de la sauvegarde des tablettes en AssyroBabylonie, RA 44 (1950) 135 — 143.
Página 50 - Venus in 4° Taurus. The place of Venus (means): Wherever he may go. it will be favorable (for him); he will have sons and daughters. Mercury in Gemini, with the Sun. The place of Mercury (means): The brave one will be first in rank, he will be more important than his brothers. . . . Saturn: 6° Cancer. Mars: 24° Cancer — The 22nd and 23rd of each month — The Babylonian date of this "horoscope" is equivalent to 3 (and 4) June 235 BC.
Página 24 - Planetary, Lunar and Solar Positions, 601 BC to AD 1, at Five-Day and Ten-Day Intervals...
Página 1 - Neugebauer and HB Van Hoesen (Greek Horoscopes [Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1959...
Página 146 - BRM Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan CAD The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Camb.
Página 114 - Translation 1 Year 122 (AE), which is 2 Year 186 (SE) Arsaces was king. 3 Abu, 30. Moonset after sunrise on the 15th. 4 Night of the 24th in the last part of the night, the child was born. 5 At that time, the moon was in Gemini, 6 sun in Leo, Jupiter and Saturn 7 in Pisces, Venus in Leo, 8 Mercury and Mars which had set 9 were not visible, rev.
Página 137 - Jupiter 5 in Sagittarius in 24°, Venus in Gemini 6 in 13°, Saturn in Aquarius in 15°, 7 Mars in Libra in 14°, Mercury which had set was not visible. 8 Nisannu [....] Ie 1 27...
Página 118 - Pisces, in excess of [two-thirds] 3 of the disk it (the moon) made. 4 On the 28th (of Abu), an eclipse of the sun in Virgo; 5 when watched for (it) was not observed. 6 On the 22nd before sunrise, (moon) 24° in Cancer, 7 On the 23rd before sunrise, (moon) 9° in Leo. Commentary obv. 4: Some discussion of the moon's position with respect to "SAG A

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