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Measuring of time in the Chaldean history (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Antediluvian age 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.02 Human history 01.02.03 Antediluvian age Measures of time 08 Administrative systems 08.05 Administrative standards 08.05.03 Measures of time	Keywords Berossus
Period 3rd century BCE Hellenistic Empires	Channel Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F3:
Berossus wrote in terms of saroi and neroi and sossoi. The saros indicates a period of 3600 years, the neros 600 years and the sossos 60 years.

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 18

Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.

Links Berossus, Babyloniaca F3

Amar Annus

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