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ADART 6 78 (X600079)
Goal-year text, unclear
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| Designation | ADART 6 78 |
|---|---|
| ID | X600079 |
| Museum no. | BM 45773 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Genre | Goal-year text |
| Find spot | unclear |
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.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [...] 11 na-su in 1 IGI [...] | sunset to setting of Mercury: 11°; (ideal) first appearance on the 1st ... |
| 2' | ⸢MU⸣ 1 ME 24.KAM {i}an LUGAL ZIZ₂ GE₆ 29 ina ZALAG₂ MUL₂.BABBAR SIG ⸢SI⸣-[MAŠ₂ ...] | Year 124, king of Anu. Month XI, night of the 29th, last part of the night, Jupiter was below β Capricorni |
| 3' | ⸢MU⸣ 1 ME 60+39.KAM {i}ar-ša₂-kam LUGAL SIG 2 9 na dele-bat [...] | Year 139, king of the Upper Sea. Month III, the 2nd, rising of Venus to sunrise: 9° |
| 4' | 8 na-su in 24 IGI GAN GE₆ 2 ina ZALAG₂ dele-bat SIG SI-[MAŠ₂ ...] | rising of Venus to sunrise: 8°; (ideal) first appearance on the 24th. Month IX, night of the 2nd, last part of the night, Venus was below β Capricorni |
| 5' | [(MUL₂-IGI-ša₂-SUHUR)]-⸢MAŠ₂⸣ 4 SI GE₆ 18 USAN dele-bat SIG MUL₂-ar₂-ša₂-SUHUR-[MAŠ₂ ...] | 4 fingers [below] γ Capricorni. Night of the 18th, first part of the night, Venus was below 𝜗 Capri[corni ...] |
| 6' | [...] 3 KUŠ₃ GE₆ 18 USAN dele-bat SIG MUL₂-IGI-ša₂-SAG-HUN [...] | ... 3 cubits. Night of the 18th, first part of the night, Venus was below β Arietis |
| 7' | [...] KUŠ₃ ŠE GE₆ 17 USAN dele-bat e MUL₂.MUL₂ 1 SI TE BAR [...] | ... cubits. Month IV, night of the 17th, first part of the night, Venus was 1 finger above η Tauri, it came close. Month I, |
| 8' | [...] | |
| 9' | [...] 21 GU₄.UD ina ŠU₂ ina ⸢MUL₂⸣.[MUL₂] 1 KUŠ₃ ar₂ dele-bat ana NIM GUB 8 SI⸣ [... IGI ...] | ... The 21st, Mercury’s first appearance in the west in Taurus, it stood 1 cubit behind Venus to the east, 8 fingers above ... |
| 10' | [...] ⸢x USAN⸣ GU₄.[UD SIG ŠUR-GIGIR]-ša₂-SI 2 KUŠ₃ GE₆ 10+[x ...] | ... first part of the night, Mercury was 2 cubits below β Tauri. Night of the 10+[xth, ...] |
| 11' | [... e MUL₂-x-ša₂-še]-pit₂-MAŠ.MAŠ 2 KUŠ₃ GE₆ [...] | 2 cubits above η Geminorum. Night |
| 12' | [...] GE₆ 20 [...] | ... Night of the 20th, |
| 13' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 14' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| r ii | ||
| 1' | [...] muš | ... snake |
| 2' | [...] DIR NU PAP | ... clouds, I did not watch. |
| 3' | [...] KUR muš | ... moonrise to sunrise: measured |
| 4' | [...] ⸢x⸣ muš | ... e’e23 snake |
| 5' | [...] muš | ... snake |
| 6' | [...] muš | ... snake |
| 7' | [...] na muš | sunrise to moonset: ; measured. |
| 8' | 14 3 GE₆ muš | The 14th, sunset to moonrise: 3°, measured. |
| 9' | 27 19 KUR KUR₄ muš | The 27th, moonrise to sunrise: 19°; it was bright, measured. |
| r iii | ||
| 1' | 15 6 GE₆ muš | The 15th, sunset to moonrise: 6°, measured. |
| 2' | 15 12 na muš | The 15th, sunrise to moonset: 12°; measured. |
| 3' | 27 20 KUR KUR₄ muš | The 27th, moonrise to sunrise: 20°; it was bright, measured. |
| 4' | ⸢DU₆⸣ 30 12 SIG a-kam muš | Month VII, (the 1st of which was identical with) the 30th (of the preceding month, sunset to moonset:) 12°; it was faint, measured (despite) mist |
| 5' | 14 7 ME muš | The 14th, moonrise to sunset: 7°, measured. |
| 6' | 14 10 UŠ ŠU₂ | 14th sunrise to moonset: 10° |
| 7' | 15 30 NINDA GE₆ | The 15th, sunset to moonrise: 30'. |
| 8' | 15 4+x⸣.20 na muš | The 15th, sunrise to moonset: 4+[x°] 20'; measured. |
| 9' | 28 13 KUR KUR₄ muš | The 28th, moonrise to sunrise: 13°; it was bright, measured. |
| r iv | ||
| 1' | 10+[x ...] | The 10+xth, ... |
| 2' | 10+[x ...] | The 10+xth, ... |
| 3' | 27 16 [KUR ...] | The 27th, moonrise to sunrise: 16° ... |
| 4' | ZIZ₂ 1 16 [...] | Month XI, the 1st (of which followed the 30th of the preceding month), sunset to moonset: 16° |
| 5' | 13 7 [ŠU₂ ...] | The 13th, moonset to sunrise: 7° |
| 6' | 14 ⸢x⸣ [ME ...] | The 14th, ... |
| 7' | 14 4+[x na ...] | The 14th, sunrise to moonset: 4+x° ... |
| 8' | 15 [x GE₆ ...] | The 15th, sunset to moonrise: ... |
| 9' | 20+[x x KUR ...] | The 20+xth, moonrise to sunrise: ... |
| 10' | ŠE 1 [...] | (Subscript) |
| 11' | [... IGI].⸢DU₈⸣.A{meš} DIB-qa{meš} u₃ AN.KU₁₀{meš} ša₂ a-na MU 1 ⸢ME⸣ 43.KAM] | first appearance in the west, passings and eclipses which were established for year 1 of the 43rd |
| 12' | [ša₂ ši-i MU 2 ME 7.KAM] {⸢i}ar⸣-[ša₂-kam] ⸢LUGAL LUGAL⸣{[meš} kun-nu-uʾ] | This is year 207, eponymy of Šarru-šarri, king of kings. |
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