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Page 420
... Hittites . Of the calendars of other peo- ples of the ancient Near East , very little is known . Thus , though the names of all or of some months are known , their order is not . The months were probably everywhere lunar , but evidence ...
... Hittites . Of the calendars of other peo- ples of the ancient Near East , very little is known . Thus , though the names of all or of some months are known , their order is not . The months were probably everywhere lunar , but evidence ...
Page 421
... Hittite Empire is known even less well . As in Babylonia , the first Hittite month was that of first fruits , and , on its beginning , the gods determined the fates . Iran . At about the time of the conquest of Babylonia in 539 BC ...
... Hittite Empire is known even less well . As in Babylonia , the first Hittite month was that of first fruits , and , on its beginning , the gods determined the fates . Iran . At about the time of the conquest of Babylonia in 539 BC ...
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... ( Hittites ) : ALBRECHT Götze , Kleinasien , 2nd ed . ( 1957 ) . ( Ugarit ) : CYRUS H. GORDON , Ugaritic Textbook ( 1965 ) . ( Phoenicians ) : J. BRIAN PECKHAM , The Development of the Late Phoenician Scripts ( 1968 ) . ( Mari ) ...
... ( Hittites ) : ALBRECHT Götze , Kleinasien , 2nd ed . ( 1957 ) . ( Ugarit ) : CYRUS H. GORDON , Ugaritic Textbook ( 1965 ) . ( Phoenicians ) : J. BRIAN PECKHAM , The Development of the Late Phoenician Scripts ( 1968 ) . ( Mari ) ...
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