BabylonMUL.APIN
Anonymous / tradition · c. 10th century BC (compiled from older material; the earliest surviving dated copy is from 686 BC, found at Assur) · Babylon (Iraq) · science
A two-tablet compendium of star lists, risings, and a schematic calendar argues that Babylonian astronomy could be organized into a single reference tool practical enough to predict intercalary months and seasonal star risings without royal omen interpretation attached.
Descends from
- Enuma Anu Enlil · c. 12th-11th century BC (canonization of a tradition drawing on centuries of older observation, including material related to the Venus Tablet)
Fed into
- Babylonian Astronomical Diaries · c. 750-61 BC (a continuous observational tradition; the earliest surviving tablets date to 652 BC)
- 1 Enoch · a composite text assembled from sections composed c. 3rd century BC to the turn of the era; the latest section, the Similitudes (chs 37-71), may run as late as the 1st century AD and is conspicuously absent from Qumran
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