Oxford University Press - A Babylon Calendar Treatise Book

Explore a significant piece of ancient history with A Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC. Published by Oxford University Press, this volume provides the first full publication of all known cuneiform manuscripts from an Akkadian calendar treatise. The text focuses on the theme of Babylonia's invasion and was composed within the milieu of Marduk's Esagil temple in Babylon, likely during the Hellenistic period before c. 170 BC. This scholarly work presents Esagil rituals as a means to protect Babylonia and Marduk's principal cult statue from foreign attack. By drawing on traditional and late Babylonian cuneiform scholarship, the treatise includes astronomy-astrology and accounts of warfare involving Elam and Assyria. It is an essential resource for researchers studying ancient history, cuneiform texts, and the religious and military history of the Late First Millennium BC.