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- Title
Weather Prediction in Babylonia.
- Authors
Ossendrijver, Mathieu
- Abstract
This paper addresses developments in the prediction of weather phenomena in Late Babylonian scholarly texts. Previously published and unpublished texts are analyzed and the underlying methods are compared with omen-based weather prognostication, developments in Babylonian astronomical prediction and reporting practices in the astronomical diaries. It is found that some texts combine long-term astronomical prediction with inferential methods for predicting weather phenomena. It is argued that these new methods for predicting weather phenomena are part of a larger Babylonian effort to predict and explain non-astronomical phenomena by relating them to predictable astronomical phenomena.
- Subjects
BABYLONIA; WEATHER forecasting; WEATHER
- Publication
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, 2021, Vol 8, Issue 1/2, p223
- ISSN
2328-9554
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/janeh-2020-0009