Rochberg,Francesca. — Babylonian horoscopes.

Philadelphia, American philosophical Society, 1998. XI,164 pp. B./w. ills. Softcover. 8vo. (Transactions of the American philosophical society, Part 1).This book contains the first complete overview of all surviving Babylonian horoscopes found on cuneiform tablets. Whereas earlier Babylonian astronomy focused on the king and the state through omens (omens), these horoscopes (from the 5th century BC) show how celestial phenomena were applied to the lives of ordinary individuals. It describes how the Babylonians recorded the positions of the sun, moon, and five planets at the moment of a person's birth. In doing so, they used both direct observations and complex calculations to determine positions that were not visible at the time. Rochberg provides transcriptions of the original texts with philological and astronomical commentary. She identifies and analyzes approximately 28 to 32 different texts. - Text in German.