From the History of Science
Time measurement and calendars in Ancient Mesopotamia (The Sumerian period)
Kurtik G. E.The paper discusses the units of time measurement and calendars used in ancient Mesopotamia between the end of the 4th and the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE. Cuneiform sources make it possible to trace the development of ideas and methods for determining the basic units of time – the day, the month, and the year. The author analyzes a sequence of calendars adopted over this period: the early Semitic, the civil lunisolar, the administrative, and the so-called schematic calendars.
Recommended bibliographic description
Kurtik G. E., Time measurement and calendars in Ancient Mesopotamia (The Sumerian period), Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki [Studies in History of Science and Technology], 2013, vol. 34, no. 4, p. 22–40
© Studies in the History of Science and Technology: Quarterly scientific journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2015)
ISSN 0205-9606. Индекс 70143
ISSN 0205-9606. Индекс 70143