AD -178D (X201784)
Astronomical Diary, Hellenistic, Babylon · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | AD -178D |
|---|---|
| ID | X201784 |
| Museum no. | BM 32563 |
| 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 133, Se[leucus ...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | clouds crossed the sky, all day very overcast. Night of the 2nd, clouds [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | Night of the 3rd, the moon was 4 1/2 cubits below η Piscium [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | the moon being 6 cubits low to the south. The 4th, in the afternoon, clouds [...] the sky [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | The 5th, clouds were in the sky. Night of the 6th, clouds were in the sky. The 6th, clouds were in the sky. Night [... the moon] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | stood 1 cubit behind Saturn to the east, the moon being x cubits low to the south; last part of the night, clouds [...] the sky [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | Night of the 8th, very overcast. The 8th, in the morning, clouds crossed the sky, the south wind blew [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | 5 cubits, the moon being 1/2 cubit back to the west. The 9th, clouds [were in] the sk[y ...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | clouds were in the sky. The 10th, all day very overcast, the east wind blew [...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [...] ..., the east wind blew. Night of the 11+[xth, ...] |
| Obverse [10:12] o 1111– | [...be]hind β Virginis [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | first part of the night, Venus was [...] below β ? [Arietis ...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | the north wind blew. Night of the 9th, beginning of the night, [the moon was ... ε Leonis, the moon] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | being [...] low to the south; thin clouds [were in] the sk[y ... Night of the 10th, beginning of the night, the moon was] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | 1/2 cubit [...] α Leonis ... [...] |
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 | MU 1 ME 33.KAM₂ {m}se-[lu-ku ...] | |
| 2 | DIR AN DIB kal ME ŠU₂.ŠU₂ GE₆ 2 ⸢DIR⸣ [...] | |
| 3 | GE₆ 3 sin SIG DUR-nu-nu 4 1/2 KUŠ₃ [...] | |
| 4 | sin 6 KUŠ₃ ana ULU₃ SIG 4 ina KIN.SIG DIR ⸢AN⸣ [...] | |
| 5 | 5 DIR AN ZA GE₆ 6 DIR AN ZA 6 DIR AN ZA GE₆ [...] | |
| 6 | ar₂ GENNA 1 KUŠ₃ ana NIM GUB sin [x] KUŠ₃ ana ULU₃ SIG ina ZALAG₂ DIR AN [...] | |
| 7 | GE₆ 8 ŠU₂.ŠU₂ 8 ina še-ri₃ DIR AN DIB ULU₃ ⸢GIN⸣ [...] | |
| 8 | 5 KUŠ₃ sin 1/2 KUŠ₃ ana ŠU₂ LAL 9 DIR ⸢AN⸣ [...] | |
| 9 | ⸢DIR AN⸣ ZA 10 kal ME ŠU₂.ŠU₂ KUR GIN [...] | |
| 10 | [...] ZA KUR GIN GE₆ 11+[x ...] | |
| 11 | [...] ⸢ar₂⸣ GIR₃-ar₂-ša₂-A [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] [x x] [...] | |
| 2' | USAN dele-bat SIG MUL₂-⸢IGI⸣-[ša₂-SAG-HUN N N ...] | |
| 3' | SI GIN GE₆ 9 SAG GE₆ [sin x SAG-A N N sin N N] | |
| 4' | ana ULU₃ SIG DIR SAL ⸢AN⸣ [... GE₆ 10 SAG GE₆ sin x] | |
| 5' | LUGAL 1/2 KUŠ₃ x⸣ [...] | |
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