symbol
Crescent
A curved sliver of light or outline. Moon phases, banners, and later national marks use crescents without one meaning.
Roman religion
Crescent appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History treats crescent phases among the moon’s changing face. A named crescent in that natural history, not full moon and not a horn dump alone.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
appears in · sourced · culturally specific
Mesopotamian tradition
Crescent appears in Mesopotamian tradition.
MUL.APIN’s lunar path speech includes the crescent among early-month moon shapes of Mesopotamian list-work. A named crescent in that compendium, not Pliny’s Roman moon-phase encyclopedia alone.
from Hermann Hunger and David Pingree · MUL.APIN, 1989 (this edition); tablets earlier
appears in · sourced · documented
Crescent appears in Astrology.
Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos tracks lunar phase conditions among visibility and timing speech of judicial astrology. A named crescent phase in that handbook, not Pliny roman crescent alone and not full-moon already filed.
from Claudius Ptolemy · Tetrabiblos, c. 150 CE
appears in · sourced · documented
sources
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- MUL.APIN · Hermann Hunger and David Pingree
Hermann Hunger and David Pingree, MUL.APIN.
- Tetrabiblos · Claudius Ptolemy
Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos.