Accession year
The term accession year (derived from the Latin accedere ) refers to the year of acquisition as well as the arrival of a thing, matter or the time of first occurrence.
Mesopotamian year counting
In the chronology of the history Altorientalisches is Mesopotamian name of the accessions sjahres in the context of succession used to be king as appointment date. The accession year itself always lasts less than a year, which is why it is also called the 0th year of government . It referred to the period before the official appointment as king during the Akitu festival . The last year of the reign of the old king also represented the year of accession of the new ruler. An example is the year of accession of Nabu-kudurri-usur II , which also represented the 21st year of Nabopolassar 's reign .
The long tradition of counting the years of government and accession, which were counted from the month of Nisanu in March / April to Adaru in February / March, was not discovered until the Seleucid era from the reign of Seleucus I in 311 BC . A reform. From this point in time, the respective government and accession year was specified in relation to the Seleucid year census (SE).
Accordingly, year 1 SE lasted in Babylonia from April 311 BC. Until March 310 BC BC and thus included two years of our calendar. After the advance of the Parthians in the middle of the second century BC In addition to the SE count, the years were also dated after the Arsacid era.
literature
- Michael P. Streck: Number and Time: Grammar of Numeralia and the Verbal System in Late Babylonian . Styx, Groningen 1995, ISBN 9072371852
- John-M. Steele: Observations and predictions of eclipse times by early Astronomers . Kluwer Academic Publications, Dordrecht 2000, ISBN 0-7923-6298-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ John-M. Steele: Observations and predictions of eclipse times by early Astronomers . Kluwer Academic Publications, Dordrecht 2000, p. 36.