AD -369 (X103690)
Astronomical Diary, Achaemenid, Babylon · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | AD -369 |
|---|---|
| ID | X103690 |
| Museum no. | BM 37097 + 37211 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'o 1'–o 1'o 1' | [...] ⸢nn⸣ cubits. Night of the 24th, last part of the night, [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] Night of the 26th, at the last appearance of the moon, ... [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] severe cold ... |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] barley, 2 pānu 4 sūtu 3 qa ... |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | [...] the high water was cut off. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...] ... Night of the 4th (and) the 4th, [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] gusty wind, rain shower. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [... Jupiter] did not reach [...] of Leo, became stationary and went back to the east |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...] gusty south wind ... at 6° night 1/3 of the disc was covered. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [... the equivalent] for 1 shekel of refined silver was: barley, 1 pānu 4 sūtu, at the end of the month, 1 pānu 5 sūtu; dates, 2 pānu 1 sūtu, at the end of the month, |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [...] At that time, Jupiter was in Leo; |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [... to] the 7th of month I of year 36, the river level [...] 2 cubits 8 fingers. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [...] mustered his [troops] and [went] to fight in the land Razaundu |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [...] ... from the end of a far journey |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [...] ... to |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [...] x KUŠ₃ GE₆ 24 ina ZALAG₂ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] GE₆ 26 sin ina KUR-šu₂ SI [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢ŠED₇⸣ dan-nu ⸢ŠED₇ x⸣ | |
| 4' | [...] x še-am 2(BARIG) 4(BAN₂) 3 qa ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 5' | [...] ⸢ILLU⸣ TAR-⸢is⸣ | |
| 6' | [...] x GE₆ 4 4 [...] | |
| 7' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢IM⸣ ŠAR₂ AN UTAH | |
| 3' | [...] UR.A NU KUR-⸢ad₂⸣ UŠ u ana NIM LAL | |
| 4' | [...] ⸢ULU₃⸣ ŠAR₂ ŠIR ina 6 UŠ ME 1/3 HAB-rat ŠU₂-im | |
| 5' | [... KI.LAM] ⸢še⸣-im 1(BARIG) 4(BAN₂) ina TIL ITU 1(BARIG) 5(BAN₂) ZU₂.LUM 2(BARIG) 1(BAN₂) ina TIL ITU | |
| 6' | [...] 1 GIN₂ KU₃.BABBAR qa-lu-u₂ i-nu-šu₂ MUL₂.BABBAR ina UR.A | |
| 7' | [...] 7 ša₂ BAR MU.36.KAM₂ ILLU 2 KUŠ₃ 8 SI | |
| 8' | [... ERIN₂]{meš}šu₂ id-ke-e-ma ana ṣal-tu₄ ina KUR ra-za-un-du | |
| 9' | [...] ⸢x⸣-nu-uh TA TIL ur-hu SUD₃-tu₂ | |
| 10' | [...] ⸢x⸣ nu ⸢x x x⸣ a-na | |
| 11' | [...] ⸢x x⸣ | |
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