For detailed treatments of Babylonian mathematical astronomy, see NeugebauerO., Astronomical cuneiform texts (London, 1955, hereafter ACT) and idem, A history of ancient mathematical astronomy (Berlin, 1977).
2.
AaboeA.SachsA., “Some dateless computed lists of longitudes of characteristic planetary phenomena from the Late-Babylonian period”, Journal of cuneiform studies, xx (1966), 1–33.
3.
SteeleJ. M., “BM 36948: A Saturn ephemeris calculated using System A from Babylon”, Journal for the history of astronomy, xxxiii (2002), 261–4.
4.
Neugebauer, ACT (ref. 1), 280.
5.
Aaboe and Sachs, op. cit. (ref. 2), Text A.
6.
ReadeJ. E., “Rassam's Babylonian collection: The excavations and the archives”, in LeichtyE., Catalogue of the Babylonian tablets in the British Museum, vi (London, 1986), pp. xiii–xxxvi.
7.
NeugebauerO.SachsA., “Some atypical astronomical cuneiform texts. I”, Journal of cuneiform studies, xxi (1967), 183–218.
8.
Neugebauer, A history (ref. 1), 459; SwerdlowN. M., “Acronychal risings in Babylonian planetary theory”, Archive for history of exact sciences, liv (1999), 49–65; HollywoodL.SteeleJ. M., “Acronycal risings in Babylonian astronomy”, Centaurus, xlvi (2004), 2004–62.
9.
I owe this analysis of zone lengths to John Britton.
10.
A possible parallel would be the solar eclipse text BM 36599+ and duplicates which appear to give details of solar eclipse possibilities taken from the astronomical diaries along side calculated data. See AaboeA.SachsA., “Two lunar texts of the Achaemenid period from Babylon”, Centaurus, xiv (1969), 1–22.
