Volume 1

Ancient calendars and constellations / by the Hon. Emmeline M. Plunket.

  • Plunket, Emmeline M. (Emmeline Mary), 1835-
Date:
1903
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ancient calendars and constellations / by the Hon. Emmeline M. Plunket. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the Persian supremacy ; tablets of the times of the Seleucidae, and the Arsacidae.”1 These documents are all dated in such and such a month of such and such a year of some king s reign; the months are the same (at first under their earlier Accadian names2) as those we 1 See Guide to the Nimroud Central Saloon, B.M., 1886. The dates of the rulers mentioned are as follows :— Rim-sin, about 2,300 b.c. Hammurabi, about 2,200 b.c. Samsu-iluna, about 2,100 b.c. Assyrian supremacy from about 1275 to 609 b.c. The latest tablet in the collection is dated, according to the Catalogue, 93 b.c. 2 Assyrian. Accadian month names, and translations. 1. Ni’sannu, .... 2. Airu,. 3. ’Sivanu, or Tsivan, . 4. Duzu,. 5. Abu,. 6. Ululu,. 7. Tasritu,. 8. Arahk-samna (“the^ 8th month ”), . .J 9. Cisilivu, or Cuzallu, . 10. Dharbitu, .... 11. Sabahu,. 12. Addaru, .... 13. Arakh-makru (“the) incidental month”),) fSara (or Bar) zig-gar (“the sacrifice of l righteousness ”). Khar-sidi (“ the propitious bull ”). fMun-ga (“of bricks”), and Kas (“the \ twins”). Su kul-na (“ seizer of seed ”). Ab ab-gar (“ fire that makes fire”). Ki Gingir-na (“the errand of Istar”). Tul-cu (“the holy altar”). Apin-ama (“the bull-like founder ?”). Ga?i ganna (“ the very cloudy ”). Abba uddu (“the father of light”). As a-an (“ abundance of rain ”). Se-ki-sil (“sowing of seed”). Se-dir (“ dark [month] of sowing ”). —Records op the Past, vol. i. p. 166.
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