AD -259 (X202590)
Astronomical Diary, Hellenistic, Babylon · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | AD -259 |
|---|---|
| ID | X202590 |
| Museum no. | BM 42063 + 42177 |
| 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 | [..., cl]ouds were in the sky. Night of the 21st, clouds were in the 23rd, Mercury [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | [... Night of the 24th, last part of the night, the moon] stood [... in front of Jupiter] to the west. Night of the 27th, last part of the night, the moon was 1 1/2 cubits below β Capricorni [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | [... bar]ley, 2 pānu 3 sūtu; dates, 3 pānu 1 sūtu; mustard, 1 kurru 1 pānu x sūtu [...] |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44– | (traces) |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] The 14th, sunrise to moonset: 3° 30'. Night [...] |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'– | [...] were in the sky; last part of the night, the moon was [...] behind β Virginis [...] |
| Top [0:1] t.e. 1t.e. 1–t.e. 1t.e. 1 | [...] year 52. |
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 | [...] ⸢DIR⸣ AN ZA GE₆ 21 DIR AN ZA 23 GU₄.UD [...] | |
| 2 | [... GE₆ 24 ina ZALAG₂ sin ina IGI MUL₂.BABBAR N N] ⸢ana⸣ ŠU₂ GUB GE₆ 27 ina ZALAG₂ sin SIG SI-MAŠ₂ 1 1/2 ⸢KUŠ₃⸣ [...] | |
| 3 | [... še]-im 2(BAN₂) 3(BAN₂) ZU₂.LUM.MA 3(BARIG) 1(BAN₂) kas₃ 1 GUR 1(BARIG) n(BAN₂) [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] [x x x x x] [...] | |
| 2' | [...] 14 3.30 na GE₆ [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢AN⸣ ZA ina ZALAG₂ sin ar₂ GIR₃-⸢ar₂⸣-[ša₂-A N N ...] | |
| t.e. | ||
| 1 | [...] ⸢MU⸣.52.KAM₂ | |
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