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| ==== Ancient chronological methods ==== | ==== Ancient chronological methods ==== | ||
| - | During | + | Beginning in the Early Dynastic period ca. 2400 BC, Babylonian scribes began to qualify administrative and legal texts with notations clearly identifiable as date notations, consisting of all of some of the categories Ruler, Year of rule, Month of year, Day of month. From the Late Uruk period of the latter third of the 4th millennium BC on, these calendars combined knowledge of solar and lunar cycles to achieve an ideal administrative year of 360 days divided into 12 months of 30 days each. The cultic calender evidently was based on the lunar cycle of ca. 29.5 days for each month, and therefore a lunar year of ca. 354 days and thus the need for intercalation of extra months on average every three years. These dates are currently entered to CDLI catalogue in the form RN.Y.M.D (Royal name is spelled in full with conventional English designations), |
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| + | For defining the year and during | ||
| **1) Year names**\\ | **1) Year names**\\ | ||
| This system attributes a “name” to the current year, making reference to an official event of the previous year (e.g., a military victory, the foundation of a religious establishment, | This system attributes a “name” to the current year, making reference to an official event of the previous year (e.g., a military victory, the foundation of a religious establishment, | ||
| * [[Year names]]\\ | * [[Year names]]\\ | ||
| - | * [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/tools/yearnames/ | + | * [[https://cdli-gh.github.io/year-names/|Year Names from Akkad to Babylon I (" |
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| **2) Eponyms**\\ | **2) Eponyms**\\ | ||
| - | This system attributes the name of a " | + | This system attributes the name of a "//limmu//” officer to the current year; this eponym, annually appointed, gives his name to the year in question. This method was the predominant system used in Assyria for more than a thousand years.\\ |
| * [[Assyrian Eponyms (limmu)|Eponym lists]]\\ | * [[Assyrian Eponyms (limmu)|Eponym lists]]\\ | ||
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| ==== Modern chronological models ==== | ==== Modern chronological models ==== | ||
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| + | * [[Adopted periodisation in CDLI|Chronological periodisation in CDLI]]\\ | ||
| * [[Archeometry (14C, dendrochronology, | * [[Archeometry (14C, dendrochronology, | ||
| - | * Astronomical observations\\ | + | * [[Astronomical observations]]\\ |
| - | * Synchronisms\\ | + | * [[Synchronisms]]\\ |
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| + | * [[Distanzangaben]] (statements of time-spans)\\ | ||
| * [[High-middle-low-ultralow " | * [[High-middle-low-ultralow " | ||
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| - | * [[Adopted periodisation in CDLI|Chronological periodisation in CDLI]]\\ | ||
| * [[Archaeological periodisation (with links to other projects, i.e. ARCANE)]]\\ | * [[Archaeological periodisation (with links to other projects, i.e. ARCANE)]]\\ | ||
