AD -286B (X102862)
Astronomical Diary, Hellenistic, Babylon · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | AD -286B |
|---|---|
| ID | X102862 |
| Museum no. | BM 37840 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE |
| Genre | Astronomical Diary |
| Find spot | Babylon |
| Coordinates | 32.5434, 44.4222 |
English translation
By ORACC project adsd/adart1 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Top [0:1] t.e. 1t.e. 1–t.e. 1t.e. 1 | Di[ary ...] |
| Top [1:3] t.e. 22– | At the command of Bēl and Bēltiya may it be we[ll]. |
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | Year 25, Se[leucus ...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | in front of ζ Tauri [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | wool? [... Mercury,] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | which had set, was n[ot visible ...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | Month VII, the 1st (of which followed the 30th of the preceding month), sunset to moonset: 17° [...] |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| t.e. | ||
| 1 | EN.NUN [...] | |
| 2 | ina a-mat {d}EN u {d}GAŠAN-ia₂ ⸢liš⸣-[lim] | |
| o | ||
| 1 | MU 25.KAM₂ {m}se-[...] | |
| 2 | ina IGI ŠUR-GIGIR-ša₂-⸢ULU₃⸣ [...] | |
| 3 | ⸢x x x x⸣ [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | SIG₂ [... GU₄.UD] | |
| 2' | ša₂ ŠU₂-u₂ ⸢NU⸣ [IGI ...] | |
| 3' | DU₆ 1 17 na [...] | |
Sources & licences
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