Late Antique Historiography

On the twelve signs of the zodiac

Title(s):
  • On the twelve signs of the zodiac
  • ܡܡܠܠܐ ܕܥܠ ܝܒ ܣܛܘܟ̈ܝܐ ܕܫܡܫܐ
    (mamllā d-‘al yb sṭūkiyē d-šemšā, Dissertation on the 12 stoicheiai of the sun [= zodiac signs])
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Period covered:
Greek and Jewish names for the zodiac
Language:
Syriac
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Astronomy & astrology
Remarks:
This seems to be only the beginning of the work. Given its interest in prediction, it may derive from the treatise 'Book' (see there).
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Bibliography:
  • M. Debié (2015) L'écriture de l'histoire en syriaque: Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et Islam (Late antique history and religion, 12). Leuven - Paris - Bristol: 520.
  • G. Furlani (1927) 'Andronikos über die Bewohner der Grenzen der Erde in syrischer Sprache'. Zeitschrift für Semitistik 5: 238-249, esp. 247.