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    Babylonian calendar (redirect from Nisannu)
    The Babylonian calendar was a lunisolar calendar used in Mesopotamia from around the second millennium BCE until the Seleucid Era (294 BCE), and it was...
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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...
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    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...
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    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]...
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