AD -169 (X201690)
Astronomical Diary, Hellenistic, Babylon · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | AD -169 |
|---|---|
| ID | X201690 |
| Museum no. | BM 31476 |
| 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/adart2 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Left [0:1] l.e. 1l.e. 1–l.e. 1l.e. 1 | [Month I?,] night of the 29th, first part of the night, Venus |
| Left [1:3] l.e. 22– | was 2/3 cubit [below] Jupiter. |
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | Year 142, kings Antiochus and Antiochus, his son. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | Month II, (the 1st of which was identical with) the 30th (of the preceding month), sunset to moonset: 16°; measured (despite) clouds; it was low to the sun. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | Night of the 2nd, clouds were in the sky; the moon stood 1 1/2 cubits in front of Venus |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | to the west, it stood 1 1/2 cubits in front of Jupiter to the west, |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | 4 cubits above Mercury. Night of the 3rd, the moon was 2 cubits in front |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | of β Geminorum. Night of the 4th, the moon was 2 cubits in front of |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | δ Cancri. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | Night of the 5th, the moon was 3 cubits below ε Leonis, |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99– | the moon being 1/2 cubit back to the west. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | That month, the river level |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| l.e. | ||
| 1 | [BAR] GE₆ 29 USAN dele-bat | |
| 2 | [SIG] MUL₂.BABBAR 2/3 KUŠ₃ | |
| o | ||
| 1 | MU 1 ME 42.KAM₂ {m}an u {m}an A-šu₂ ⸢LUGAL{meš⸣} | |
| 2 | GU₄ 30 16 na-su DIR muš ana šamaš₂ SIG | |
| 3 | GE₆ 2 DIR AN ZA sin ina IGI dele-bat 1 1/2 KUŠ₃ | |
| 4 | ana ŠU₂ GUB ina IGI MUL₂.BABBAR 1 1/2 KUŠ₃ ana ŠU₂ GUB | |
| 5 | e GU₄.UD 4 KUŠ₃ GE₆ 3 sin ina IGI | |
| 6 | MAŠ.MAŠ-ar₂ 2 KUŠ₃ GE₆ 4 sin ina IGI | |
| 7 | MUL₂-ar₂-ša₂-ALLA-ša₂-ULU₃ 2 KUŠ₃ | |
| 8 | GE₆ 5 sin SIG SAG-A 3 KUŠ₃ | |
| 9 | sin 1/2 KUŠ₃ ana ŠU₂ LAL | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ITU BI ILLU | |
Sources & licences
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