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Babylonian Almanac is a source of information for predictions, i.e. an almanac, made for astronomical phenomena for the specific years contained within it. [1][2]

The work comes entirely from manuscripts, of which fifty-two were discovered, of these, there are significant variations in certain lines of the ancient texts.[3]

References

  1. ^ Khalid Salim Isma'El and A. R. George. Tablets from the Sippar Library XI. The Babylonian Almanac. British Institute for the Study of Iraq in Iraq Volume 64 (2002), pp. 249-258 DOI: 10.2307/4200527. Retrieved 2015-06-13. {{cite book}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ John M. Steele. Almanacs, Babylonian. 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Inc 7 FEB 2012 DOI: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah21017. Retrieved 2015-06-13.
  3. ^ Wilfred G. Lambert, A. R. George, Irving L. Finkel - Wisdom, Gods and Literature: Studies in Assyriology in Honour of W.G. Lambert Eisenbrauns, 2000, 462 pages, ISBN 1575060043 Retrieved 2015-06-13