Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia

by Hermann Hunger

A large volume of tablets, transliterated by Abraham Sachs and Hermann Hunger, of lunar and planetary information dating from the 8th to 1st century BC. The first part examines tablets relating to the moon, especially eclipse reports, the second to the planets and the recurrence of astronomical phenomena. An appendix contains a list of eclipse dates.

399 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2001

About the author

Hermann Hunger an Austrian Assyriologist, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna, until his retirement (2007). An authority on Babylonian astronomy and celestial omens.
Hunger translated a cuneiform tablet from the Babylonian astronomical diaries that describes the appearance of Halley's Comet in 163 BCE.