The Babylonian Almanac is a source of information for

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s, i.e., an

almanac An almanac (also spelled ''almanack'' and ''almanach'') is an annual publication listing a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. It includes information like weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and othe ...

, made for astronomical phenomena for the specific years contained within it. The work comes entirely from manuscripts, of which fifty-two were discovered. Of these, there are significant variations in certain lines of the ancient texts.Wilfred G. Lambert, A. R. George, Irving L. Finkel
Wisdom, Gods and Literature: Studies in Assyriology in Honour of W.G. Lambert
Eisenbrauns, 2000, 462 pages, Retrieved 2015-06-13

References

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