Preface VII
Abbreviations X
Publications of Francesca Rochberg XIII
1
Where Next for “Ancient Science”? 1
G.E.R. Lloyd
2
Crow Omens in Mesopotamia 15
Ann Kessler Guinan
3
Old Signs in New Dress? On the Meaning of Inanna’s Symbol as Sign and “Presence” in Early Babylonian Divination 26
Abraham Winitzer
4
Material, Constellation, Image, God: The Fate of the Chosen Bull according to kar 50 and Duplicates 58
Alan Lenzi
5
A Late Babylonian Compilation Concerning Ritual Timing and Materia Medica 97
Matthew Rutz
6
bm 40187: A Birthnote for Two Named Individuals 113
M. Willis Monroe
7
Converging Fortunes—Links between Celestial and Intestinal Divination 120
Ulla Koch
8
Sumerian Divination 148
C. Jay Crisostomo
9
The Form and History of a Babylonian Prayer to Nabû 169
Tzvi Abusch
10
Translation in the Elevation of Ištar 183
Niek Veldhuis
11
Jeffrey L. Cooley
12
Dating eae. When was the Astrological Series Enūma Anu Ellil Created? 253
Nils P. Heeßel
13
Bricoleurs in Babylonia: The Scribes of Enūma Anu Enlil 264
Eduardo A. Escobar and Laurie E. Pearce
14
The Date of the Accession of Nabonidus to the Throne of Babylon: A Reappraisal of the Evidence 287
Grant Frame
15
Intercalary Months in Achaemenid Elamite Administrative Documents from Persepolis 296
Matthew W. Stolper
16
The Importance of Experts: Agents in the Transfer of Astral Knowledge between Hellenistic Mesopotamia and the Greek-speaking World 317
Zoë Misiewicz
17
Diodorus on the Chaldeans 333
Alexander Jones and John Steele
18
Observing Eclipses: An Optical Question in Problemata 15.11 353
Alan C. Bowen
19
Chaldeans on the Nile: Two Egyptian Astronomical Procedure Texts with Babylonian Systems A₁ and A₂ for Mercury 382
Mathieu Ossendrijver and Andreas Winkler
20
Clever Machines and the Gods Who Make Them: The Antikythera Mechanism and the Ancient Imagination 420
Daryn Lehoux
Index of Subjects 447
Index of Ancient Texts and words 449