Compendia and Procedure Texts in the Mesopotamian Astral Sciences By Mathieu Ossendrijver

https://www.academia.edu/20212480/Compendia_and_Procedure_Texts_in_the_Mesopotamian_Astral_Sciences This contribution surveys the most important compendia and procedure texts for the Mesopotamian astral sciences, including Enuma Anu Enlil (EAE), MUL.APIN, the astronomical diaries and procedure texts. The protases in Enuma Anu Enlil have often served as a particularly important arena for discussing empirical observation in the Mesopotamian sciences and this paper speaks to the wellknown occurrence of impossible phenomena in compendia such as this. The astronomical diaries also represent a particularly important type of astronomical compendia in ancient Mesopotamia, since they collected and compiled short-term reports from a wide range of different scribes over a given six-month period of time. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of procedure texts that were used for astrological predication such as TU 11. ...