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215 biru” in the central celestial band, were yet another class of tablets, this time circular. Representing “an advance back- ward” to the Sumerian astronomical tenets, the tablets di- vided the celestial sphere into the three Ways (Way of Enlil for the northern skies, of Ea for the southern, and of Anu in the center). The twelve zodiacal-calendrical segments were then superimposed on the three Ways, as shown by the dis- covered fragments (Fig. 96); explanatory texts were written on the back sides of those circular tablets. In A.D. 1900, addressing a meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society in London, England, Theophilius G. Pinches caused a sensation when he announced that he had succeeded in (al eek nti ist nee Fe | dis eet Ne Darkness at Noon FIGURE 96