AD -175A (X201751)
Astronomical Diary, Hellenistic, Babylon · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | AD -175A |
|---|---|
| ID | X201751 |
| Museum no. | BM 32572 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | [Year 136,] king Seleucus. Month II, the 1st (of which followed the 30th of the preceding month), sunset to moonset: 24°, it was bright, earthshine ... [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | [...] stood to the east, the moon being 2 1/2 cubits low to the south. Night of the 2nd, the moon was [in] front of [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | [...] ... stood 1 cubit 6 fingers to the east. Night of the 4th, [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [... Night] of the 5th, last part of the night, Mars was 2 [mm] below δ Capricorni [...] |
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) |
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| o | ||
| 1 | [MU 1 ME 36.⸢KAM₂⸣ {m}se-lu-ku LUGAL {itu}⸢GU₄⸣ 1 24 na-su KUR₄ a-pir ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 2 | [...] ⸢ana⸣ NIM GUB sin 2 1/2 KUŠ₃ ana ULU₃ SIG GE₆ 2 sin⸣ [ina] ⸢IGI⸣ [...] | |
| 3 | [...] ⸢x⸣ 1 KUŠ₃ 6 SI ana NIM GUB ⸢GE₆ 4 [...] | |
| 4 | [... GE₆] 5 ina ZALAG₂ AN SIG ⸢SUHUR-ar₂ 2 [N ...] | |
| 5 | [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
Sources & licences
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