Rear - Line 2

Rear Line 1 | Rear Line 2 | Rear Line 3

Hand drawing below by Ernst F. Weidner (1952)


AB2MURUB4????MUŠDIŠ


Transliteration:

MULx MURUB4 [ša2 ki]-ṣir DIŠ.┌KUŠ3 ša2 PA.BIL 1 KUŠ3┐ xx [...]

Translation - by P.V. Neugebauer and E. F. Weidner (1915) edited by Hermann Hunger (1988)

1 cubit [above/below] the middle star of the elbow of Sagittarius ... [...]

Note

Does the tablet say Sagittarius?

The image at the bottom below shows what remains of Rear line 3 - The image of symbols for AN.BAR7 (equivalent to AN.NE) from Front line 5 are above it for comparison. The red arrows point to the end of the Vertical wedge of the symbol AN. The tablet here could be referring to "Noon" as it does on front line 5, rather than Sagittarius.

Photo credit: Olaf M. Teßmer, Vorderasiatisches Museum

If the missing symbol was PA, wouldn't the vertical wedge be slightly further away from the start of NE/BIL/BAR7?

If the missing symbol was AN, this would explain the larger gap between AN an the symbol before it.

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