Hermann Hunger

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Observation of Halley's Comet, recorded in cuneiform on a clay tablet between 22 and 28 September 164 BCE, Babylon, Iraq. British Museum.^[1]

Hermann Hunger (born 1942), an Austrian Assyriologist, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna, until his retirement (2007).^[2] An authority on Babylonian astronomy and celestial omens.

Hunger translated a cuneiform tablet from the Babylonian astronomical diaries that describes the appearance of Halley's Comet in 163 BCE.^[3]

Published

Mul.Apin, 1989 (with David Pingree).

Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik), 1999 (with David Pingree).

Astronomical Diaries And Related Texts From Babylonia, 2006.^[4]

References

↑ Entry at the British Museum Collection Database.
↑ Entry at Austrian Academy of Sciences
↑ G. Kronk (1999). Cometography, vol.1. Cambridge University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-521-58504-0.
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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 111954673 LCCN: n86142595 GND: 136354181 BNF: cb121208487

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