Ancient Astral Science in Transformation

Project Information

ZODIAC

Grant agreement ID: 885478

DOI

10.3030/885478

EC signature date 23 September 2020

Start date 1 April 2021

End date 31 March 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 778,75

EU contribution

€ 2 499 778,75

Coordinated by

FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Quando l’animale nasconde il potere dell’astro. Il caso delle Ciranidi e i nomi segreti dei pianeti

Author(s): Spadini, Fabio
Published in: I Quaderni del Ramo d'Oro, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 2035-7524
Publisher: University of Siena

Magical Obstetrics: Anubis, Bird Blood, and a Black Shrew

Author(s): Winkler, Andreas
Published in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Issue 15456978, 2022, Page(s) 53-70, ISSN 1545-6978
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/718783

"""Stellar Scientists: The Egyptian Temple Astrologers"""

Author(s): Winkler, Andreas
Published in: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, Issue 23289562, 2021, Page(s) 91-145, ISSN 2328-9562
Publisher: DeGruyter
DOI: 10.1515/janeh-2020-0017

Weather Prediction in Babylonia

Author(s): Ossendrijver, Mathieu
Published in: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, Issue 23289562, 2021, Page(s) 223-258, ISSN 2328-9562
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/janeh-2020-0009

BM 47886+47914, a Babylonian astral compendium with possible implications for the origin of the “year of the Sun”

Author(s): Mathieu Ossendrijver
Published in: Journal for the History of Astronomy, Issue 55, 2024, Page(s) 350-363, ISSN 0021-8286
Publisher: Science History Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.1177/00218286241233769

Structuring Astral Science: A Demotic Astrological Manual from Graeco-Roman Egypt (P. Berlin 8345)

Author(s): Winkler, Andreas
Published in: Manuscripts and Text Cultures, Issue 2.1, 2023, ISSN 2752-3462
Publisher: University of Oxford
DOI: 10.56004/v2.1aw

Scholars, Priests, and Temples: Babylonian and Egyptian Science in Context. Introduction

Author(s): Ossendrijver, Mathieu
Published in: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, Issue 23289562, 2021, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 2328-9562
Publisher: DeGruyter
DOI: 10.1515/janeh-2021-0003

On the demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis

Author(s): Winkler, Andreas
Published in: Journal for the History of Astronomy, Issue 00218286, 2022, Page(s) 328-337, ISSN 0021-8286
Publisher: Science History Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.1177/00218286221109257

Notes on Magical Papyri: Part i

Author(s): Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael
Published in: Symbolae Osloenses, Issue 96:1, 2022, Page(s) 285–305, ISSN 0039-7679
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/00397679.2023.2181587

A Simulation-Based View on Mesopotamian Computational Practices

Author(s): Ossendrijver, Mathieu
Published in: Claroscuro, Issue 16661842, 2021, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 1666-1842
Publisher: Escuela de Historia & Escuela de Antropología, Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
DOI: 10.35305/cl.vi20.66

Zodiacs and monuments: An early pictorial “horoscope” from Egypt

Author(s): Andreas Winkler, Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
Published in: Journal for the History of Astronomy, Issue 54, 2024, Page(s) 125-152, ISSN 0021-8286
Publisher: Science History Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.1177/00218286231159361

Other (4)

Babylonian planetary calculation in Greco-Roman Egypt, P. 16511 V

Author(s): Peeters, Thomas
Published in: Berliner Papyrusdatenbank, 2023
Publisher: Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Review of Reynolds, F. — A Babylon Calendar Treatise. Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC

Author(s): Ossendrijver, Mathieu
Published in: Bibliotheca Orientalis, Issue 79 (5-6), 2023, Page(s) 566-569, ISSN 0006-1913
Publisher: Peeters

Review of P.-A. Beaulieu, E. Frahm, W. Horowitz and J. Steele, The Cuneiform Uranology Texts. Drawing the Constellations.

Author(s): Ossendrijver, Mathieu
Published in: Archiv für Orientforschung, Issue 00666440, 2022, Page(s) 167-169, ISSN 0066-6440
Publisher: Selbstverlag Universität Wien

Review of: F. Lemmermeyer 2022, Mathematik à la carte – Babylonische Algebra

Author(s): Ossendrijver, Mathieu
Published in: zbMATH Zbl 1537.01002, 2024
Publisher: FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur GmbH

Book chapters (15)

Semitic loanwords and transcriptions in the Greek epigraphy of Judaea-Palestine

Author(s): Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael
Published in: Inscriptions and the epigraphic habit : the epigraphic cultures of Greece, Rome, and beyond, 2023, ISBN 978-90-04-68312-9
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004683129_016

Babylonian Astronomy: Editing and Interpreting an Ancient Science

Author(s): Mathieu Ossendrijver
Published in: Archimedes, Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World, 2024, Page(s) 523-556, ISBN 978-3-031-49616-5
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49617-2_14

Tablette astrologique du micro-zodiaque

Author(s): Ossendrijver, Mathieu and Schreiber, Marvin
Published in: Animaux Fantastiques: Du merveilleux dans l'art, 2023, Page(s) 175–176
Publisher: Snoeck Publishers

A Zodiac for the Hereafter: The Coffins of Petamenophis-Ammonios and His Family

Author(s): Winkler, Andreas
Published in: Imagining the Heavens Across Eurasia from Antiquity to Early Modernity (Art), 2024, Page(s) 65-89, ISBN 9788869774256
Publisher: Mimesis International

Collaborative Annotation and Computational Analysis of Hieratic

Author(s): Julius Tabin, Mark-Jan Nederhof, Christian Casey
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2023 Workshops, 2023, Page(s) 267-283, ISBN 978-3-031-41498-5
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41498-5_19

The Chronokratores in Greek Astrology, in Light of a New Papyrus Text: Oxford, Bodl. MS Gr. Class. B 24 (P) 1–2

Author(s): Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael
Published in: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Issue Volume 112, 2023, Page(s) 465-502, ISBN 9780674292628
Publisher: Harvard University Press

The First Zodiac Sign and the Daimon: The Advent of an Astrological Tradition and Seven Elaborate Horoscopes

Author(s): Winkler, Andreas
Published in: Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Issue 51, 2022, Page(s) 267-319, ISBN 978-3-96769-258-7
Publisher: Buske Verlag
DOI: 10.46771/978-3-96769-258-7

Performative Aspects of Assyrian Celestial Divination and Babylonian Astronomical Diaries

Author(s): Ossendrijver, Mathieu
Published in: Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences, Issue 36, 2024, Page(s) 39-54, ISBN 9783111343556
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783111343556-003

Astral Science in Uruk during the First Millennium BCE: Libraries, Communities and Transfer of Knowledge

Author(s): Ossendrijver, Mathieu
Published in: Uruk. Altorientalische Metropole und Kulturzentrum, 2021, Page(s) 319–342, ISBN 978-3-447-11368-7
Publisher: Harrassowitz

The seven-day week in the Roman Empire: origins, standardization, and diffusion

Author(s): Bultrighini, Ilaria & Stern, Sacha
Published in: Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages, Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, 2021, Page(s) 10–79, ISBN 9789004459694
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004459694_003

Theōn hemerai: astrology, the planetary week, and the cult of the seven planets in the Graeco-Roman world

Author(s): Bultrighini, Ilaria
Published in: Religion and Education in the Ancient Greek World, 2021, Page(s) 217–240, ISBN 978-3-16-159881-4
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
DOI: 10.17169/refubium-36732

Female or Male Desire? Astrological Gems and Procreation

Author(s): Spadini, Fabio
Published in: Gender Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften: Women and Objects in Antiquity, Issue 12, 2022, Page(s) 241-264, ISBN 978-3-86821-936-4
Publisher: WVT Trier Verlag

Catalogue: Hay 1–7

Author(s): Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael
Published in: The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice, Issue British Museum research publications ; 233, 2022, Page(s) 79-178, ISBN 978-0-86159-233-3
Publisher: British Museum Research Publications

Of Alchemy, Astrology and Magic in Late Roman Egypt: The Leiden and Stockholm Codices in Context

Author(s): Winkler, Andreas
Published in: The History of Alchemy: Influences on Culture, Science and Society, 2025, Page(s) 29-44, ISBN 9789189882690
Publisher: Stolpe Publishing

Des mots en images ? Les noeuds astrologiques

Author(s): Spadini, Fabio
Published in: Parerga Pour Victor I. Stoichita, 2022, Page(s) 10-22, ISBN 978-2-600-06324-1
Publisher: DROZ

Non-peer reviewed articles (7)

STARS AND SYSTEMS: TWO WORKS ON THE ASTRAL SCIENCES

Author(s): Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
Published in: The Classical Review, 2024, Page(s) 1-6, ISSN 0009-840X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0009840x24000404

The Astrological Schemes Behind <i>bīt niṣirtu</i> and KI in the Babylonian Horoscopes

Author(s): Alessia Pilloni
Published in: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 2328-9554
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/janeh-2023-0014

Building Digital Projects to Outlive Their Funding

Author(s): Casey, Christian
Published in: Avar Journals, 2023, Page(s) 355-378, ISSN 2752-3527
Publisher: Transnational Press
DOI: 10.33182/aijls.v2i2.2835

New fragments of Babylonian astronomical procedure texts

Author(s): Ossendrijver, Mathieu
Published in: SCIAMVS 24, Issue 24, 2024, Page(s) 1-40, ISSN 1345-4617
Publisher: SCIAMVS

On the unit UŠ = šuššān

Author(s): Ossendrijver, Mathieu
Published in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Issue 09895671, 2022, Page(s) 156-157, ISSN 0989-5671
Publisher: SEPOA

Traversing the ancient Egyptian skies

Author(s): Andreas Winkler
Published in: Journal for the History of Astronomy, Issue 56, 2025, Page(s) 115-121, ISSN 0021-8286
Publisher: Science History Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.1177/00218286241277908

GIŠ.GIŠ.ḪI, a Ghost Word for GIŠ.AM instead of GIŠ.ÀM

Author(s): Ossendrijver, Mathieu Schreiber, Marvin Fincke, Jeanette C.
Published in: Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, Issue 1, No. 30, 2024, Page(s) 49-50, ISSN 0989-5671
Publisher: NABU