Book Review: The Chronology of Old Babylon,Die Venustafeln des Ammī-⋅aduqa und ihre Bedeutung für die astronomische Datierung der altbabylonischen Zeit
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Book Review: The Chronology of Old Babylon,Die Venustafeln des Ammī-⋅aduqa und ihre Bedeutung für die astronomische Datierung der altbabylonischen Zeit
HuberP. J., Astronomical dating of Babylon I and Ur III (Malibu, 1982).
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GascheH.ArmstrongJ. A.ColeS. W.GurzadyanV. G., Dating the fall of Babylon: A reappraisal of second-millennium chronology (Ghent and Chicago, 1998). For criticisms of this study, see for example the review by HuberP. J. in Archiv für Orientforschung, xlvi–xlvii (1999–2000), 287–90.
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de JongT.FoertmeyerV., “A new look at the Venus observations of Ammisaduqa: Traces of the Santorini eruption in the atmosphere of Babylon?”, Jaarbericht “Ex Orient Lux”, xlii (2010), 143–59.
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For example, BrittonJ. P.ProustC.ShniderS., “Plimpton 322: A review and a different perspective”, Archive for history of exact sciences, lxv (2011), 519–66, make a strong plea for Huber's long chronology to be accepted.
