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216 piecing together a complete “‘astrolabe” (“Taker of Stars’), as he called the tablet. He showed it to be a circular disc divided into three concentric sections and, like a pie, into twelve seg- ments, resulting in a field of thirty-six portions. Each of the thirty-six portions contained a name with a small circle be- low it, indicating it was a celestial body, and a number. Each portion also bore a month’s name, so Pinches numbered them from | to XIL, starting with Nissan (Fig. 97). The presentation caused an understandable sensation, for here was a Babylonian sky map, divided into the three Ways of Enlil, Anu, and Ea/Enki, showing which planets, stars, and constellations were observed where at each month dur- THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 97