Text, Mesopotamian cylinder seals and impressions

Cylinder seal impressions depicting Gods and celestial symbols After originals dating to the 2nd and 1st millennium BC Mesopotamia Vorderasiatisches Museum (Museum for the Near East), Inv. VAG-TOP 1535.1626.1648.1945 | The constellation of the spring full Moon and the Pleiades was used to identify leap days. It is represented on cylindrical seals and is described in a cuneiform script. If the moon stands at Pleiades on the 1st or 2nd of Nisanu, it will be a normal year. However, if the Moon stands only on the 3rd of Nisanu at the Pleiades, it will be a leap year.