Araḫsamna

Araḫsamna (also APIN ; the month of plunging ) was the Akkadian name of the eighth month in the Babylonian calendar . Since the month of Tašritu, according to the Babylonian sources, was either the first new light or the first full moon of autumn , the month of Araḫsamna usually began on October 8th at the earliest and November 13th at the latest .

See also

• MUL APIN

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 et al. 1980, ISBN 3-1100-7192-4 , pp. 297-303.
• Jean Meeus : Astronomical Algorithms - Applications for Ephemeris Tool 4,5 . 2nd Edition. Barth, Leipzig 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 . 2nd edition. Brown University Press, Providence RI 1957, (Also: Unabridged, slightly corrected reprint. Dover Publications, New York NY 2004, ISBN 0-486-22332-9 , ( Dover classics of science and mathematics )).
• Richard Anthony Parker , Waldo H. Dubberstein: Babylonian Chronology 626 BC - AD 75 . Brown University Press, Rhode Island 1956