Editorial: Harrassowitz Verlag
Colección: Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien
Número de páginas: 476 págs. 17.0 x 24.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 20-12-2023
EAN: 9783447120531
ISBN: 978-3-447-12053-1
Precio (sin IVA): 109,76 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 114,15 €
This is a monograph on the Pleiades, one of the oldest examples of a divine asterism. The Mesopotamian scholars understood it to be seven stars that received great attention in the cuneiform culture. This volume is designed as a case study on the topic of the conceptualisation of celestial bodies in Mesopotamia, and it aims to show how the Pleiades were perceived and thus described in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. To this end, this monograph analyzes the intertextual relationships within a wide range of cuneiform sources – myths, prayers, and astral science texts – tracing one or more possible traditions in the perception of the Pleiades transmitted over almost two millennia.