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The Babylonian Almanac is a source of information for
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s, i.e., an
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, made for
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phenomena for the specific years contained within it. The work comes entirely from
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s, of which fifty-two were discovered. Of these, there are significant variations in certain lines of the ancient texts.Wilfred G. Lambert, A. R. George, Irving L. Finkel
Wisdom, Gods and Literature: Studies in Assyriology in Honour of W.G. Lambert
Eisenbrauns, 2000, 462 pages, Retrieved 2015-06-13


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