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ADART 5 57 (X500058)

planetary text, Nippur

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DesignationADART 5 57
IDX500058
Museum no.CBS 11901
LanguageAkkadian
Genreplanetary text
Find spotNippur
Coordinates32.1269, 45.2308

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)

Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

LineATFMachine English (draft)
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1'[ŠU x] 1 GU₄.UD IGI[Month IV, ...] 1 Mercury’s first appearance
2'[x] ⸢na⸣ 1 šamaš₂ GUB... ešamaš 1 solstice
3'21 {mul₂}KAK.SI.SA₂ IGIThe 21st, Sirius’ first appearance.
4'[x] ⸢UD⸣.NA₂.A 22 {d}ṣal-bat-a-nu ŠU₂x ešû-stones 22 ‘Baladanu’
5'[NE] 30 11 GU₄.UD ŠU₂Month V, (the 1st of which was identical with) the 30th (of the preceding month, sunset to moonset:) 11°; Mercury was last appearance
6'[x] nasunrise to moonset: ...;
7'27 UD.NA₂.AThe 27th, last appearance of the moon.
8'⸢KIN⸣ 1 11 GU₄.UD IGIMonth VI, the 1st (of which followed the 30th of the preceding month, sunset to moonset:) 11°; Mercury was first visible
9'14 na 26 dele-bat ŠU₂sunrise to moonset: 14°. The 26th, Venus’ last appearance
10'[x] ⸢UD⸣.NA₂.A... ēšû-plant
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1'⸢DU₆⸣ 30 1 GU₄.UD ŠU₂VII 30 1 Mercury’s last appearance
2'15 na 3 LAL₂-ti₃The 15th, sunrise to moonset: 3°; equinox.
3'GE₆ 15 10 UŠ GE₆ GINNight of the 15th, sunset to moonrise: 10°.
4'27 UD.NA₂.A {d}sin AN.KU₁₀ GAROn the 27th day, the moon made an eclipse.
5'28 šamaš₂ AN.KU₁₀ DIBThe 28th, solar eclipse, omitted.
6'APIN 1 18 {d}ṣal-bat-a-nu IGIMonth VIII, the 1st (of which followed the 30th of the preceding month, sunset to moonset:) 18°; Venus was first visible
7'15 nasunrise to moonset: 15°
8'26 dele-bat IGIThe 26th, Venus’ first appearance.
9'28 UD.NA₂.AThe 28th, last appearance of the moon.
10'[GAN] 30 7 MUL₂.BABBAR ŠU₂Month IX, (the 1st of which was identical with) the 30th (of the preceding month, sunset to moonset:) 7°. Jupiter set
11'11 GU₄.UD ŠU₂11 Mercury’s last appearance
12'[x] na 25 GU₄.UD IGIrising of Mercury to sunrise: ... The 25th, Mercury’s first appearance
13'[x UD.NA₂].A 28 SAG.UŠ ŠU₂[The xth,] last appearance of the moon. The 28th, Saturn's last appearance

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