- The
Babylonian calendar was a
lunisolar calendar used in
Mesopotamia from
around the 2nd
millennium BC
until the
Seleucid Era (294 BC), and it was specifically...
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Babylonian calendar, the
Babylonian New Year of
Nisannu 1
falls on
January 14-15. March; the full moon in
Nisannu on the 27th-28th
March and the 1st Tašritu...
- Year. The
Festival began on the
first day of the
first Babylonian month,
Nisannu,
roughly corresponding to April/May in the
Gregorian calendar. This festival...
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Babylonian lunar month(s) 1 March–April Ādukanaiša Hadukannaš "Sowing (month)"
Nīsannu 2 April–May Θūravāhara
Turmar "(Month of)
strong spring" Ayyāru 3 May–June...
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reenacted during the
Akitu festival, on the
fourth day of the
month of
Nisannu. The epic
starts off by
mentioning Apsu and Tiamat, here the
oldest gods...
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solar years. 8 When on the
first Nisannu Pleiades and moon are in balance, this year is normal. 9 When on the
third Nisannu Pleiades and moon are in balance...
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Akkadian Syriac Part of
Speech Meaning Notes Nisannu ܢܝܣܢ
proper noun "April"
Ayyaru ܐܝܪ
proper noun "May" Simānu ܚܙܝܪܢ
proper noun "June" Duʾūzu ܬܡܘܙ...
- this situation,
after the king has
explained about it!' In the
month of
Nisannu, the
eleventh day, till the god was
present on his seat [lacuna] [lacuna]...
