Babylonian House Numbers and Squares of Zodiacal Signs: The Origin of the Quadruplicities, Part II

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-579669
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.57966

Brack-Bernsen, Lis

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Abstract

The texts BM 36628+ and BM 45720 contain number schemes, which in their first four columns list consecutive lines of Calendar Texts. These texts add six more columns (columns 5–10) to the classic Calendar Text. Therefore, we shall call them expanded Calendar Texts. The additional column 10 lists house numbers j, while column 9 contains four signs (labeled i) over four consecutive lines, one of ...