Abu (month)

Abu was the Babylonian name for the fifth month in the Babylonian calendar . Since the month of Nisannu, according to the Babylonian sources, was either the first new light or the first full moon of spring , the month of Abu usually began on July 3rd at the earliest and August 14th at the latest .

literature

• Lis Brack-Bernsen: On the emergence of the Babylonian moon theory - observation and theoretical calculation of moon phases . Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07089-3 .
• Hermann Hunger : Calendar . In: Dietz-Otto Edzard u. a .: Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology , Vol . 5 . de Gruyter, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-1100-7192-4 , pp. 297-303.
• Jean Meeus : Astronomical Algorithms - Applications for Ephemeris Tool 4,5 . Barth Leipzig 2nd edition 2000, ISBN 3-335-00400-0 .
• Otto Neugebauer : A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy . Springer, Berlin 1975 (reprint 2006, ISBN 3-540-06995-X ).
• Otto Neugebauer: The exact sciences in antiquity . Brown University Press, New-York 1957 (Reprint 2004, Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-22332-9 ).
• Richard Anthony Parker , Waldo H. Dubberstein: Babylonian Chronology 626 BC - AD 75 . Brown University Press, Rhode Island 1956