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• Jacobus, Helen R.

This paper proposes that the Greco-Roman zodiac sundials that flourished in Greece and Italy from about the second century BCE to the second century CE were related to a probable zodiac calendar found in astronomical Aramaic manuscript fragments in the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran, dated about c. 2,000 years BP and c. 2,170 years BP. I demonstrate that in the Ethiopic Book of Luminaries the zodiac signs have been substituted by numbered gates of heaven and that this codified model can be traced back to the Qumran texts. Furthermore, that this same pattern is evident in Greco-Roman sundials in an unencrypted form. I conclude that the paradigms in the proposed Qumran zodiac calendar and the Greco-Roman zodiac sundials are the same, making it likely that the Aramaic fragments contain a zodiac calendar.

• History and Archaeology

• Αρχαιολογία
• Αρχαιομετρία

Prosymna globe, Nafplio sundial, Aramaic Astronomical Book of Enoch, 4Q208–4Q209, Dead Sea Scrolls, Book of Luminaries, 1 Enoch Chapter 72

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