Studies of the Unpublished Tablets of the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870111
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology/History of science and technology; History of Asia and Africa
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: MITSUMA Yasuyuki 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 学術研究員 (00568280)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: バビロン天文日誌 / アッカド語 / 楔形文字 / 粘土板 / イラク / 天文学 / 西アジア / 書誌学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A series of Akkadian (Late-Babylonian) cuneiform texts, Babylonian Astronomical Diaries, was made in the city of Babylon, from the mid-seventh to the mid-first centuries BC, on cuneiform tablets. This study introduced some unpublished diaries and a related text with their copies, transliterations, and translations. Some published tablets of the diaries were also studied with new interpretations. Some problems, such as compilation of the diaries, details of the historical events recorded in the diaries, relationship of the diaries with some historical, astronomical, and astrological texts were also studied.

Free Research Field

科学社会学・科学技術史、アジア史・アフリカ史