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Babylonian astronomy collated earlier observations and divinations into sets of Babylonian star catalogues, during and after the Kassite rule over Babylonia. These star catalogues, written in cuneiform script, contained lists of constellations, individual stars, and planets. The constellations were probably collected from various other sources, the earliest catalogue, ''Three Stars Each'' mentions stars of Akkad, of Amurru, of Elam and others. Various sources have theorized a Sumerian origin for these Babylonian constellations,〔.(History of the Constellations and Star Names — D.4: Sumerian constellations and star names? ), by Gary D. Thompson〕 but an Elamite origin has also been proposed.〔 (History of the Constellations and Star Names — D.5: Elamite lion-bull iconography as constellations? ), by Gary D. Thompson〕 A connection to the star symbology of Kassite kudurru border stones has also been claimed, but whether such kudurrus really represented constellations and astronomical information aside for the use of the symbols remains unclear. Star catalogues after ''Three Stars Each'' include the ''MUL.APIN'' list named after the first Babylonian constellation ', "the Plough", which is the current Triangulum constellation plus Gamma Andromedae. It lists, among others, 17 or 18 constellations in the zodiac. Later catalogues reduces the zodiacal set of constellations to 12, which were borrowed by the Egyptians and the Greeks, still surviving among the modern constellations. ==Three Stars Each== The first formal compendia of star lists are the ''Three Stars Each'' texts appearing from about the 12th century BC. They represent a tripartite division of the heavens: the northern hemisphere belonged to Enlil, the equator belonged to Anu, and the southern hemisphere belonged to Enki. The boundaries were at 17 degrees North and South, so that the Sun spent exactly three consecutive months in each third. The enumeration of stars in the ''Three Stars Each'' catalogues includes 36 stars, three for each month. The determiner glyph for "constellation" or "star" in these lists is MUL (, in origin a pictograph of three stars, as it were a triplet of AN signs (the Pleiades are referred to as a "star cluster" or "star of stars" in the lists, written as MUL.MUL, or MULMUL, ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Babylonian star catalogues」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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