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Hand drawing below by Ernst F. Weidner (1952)


GI6UDIŠŠU2UDIŠANDULPAGI6U2AANIUGUMEU2ANKIANIGIDIŠU.U.UNAUGUMEDULPA


Transliteration:

GI6 11 ŠU2 11 AN DUL-ḫat GI6 12 ŠEG3 i UGU.ME 12 DINGIR KI DINGIR IGI 1.UUU NA UGU.ME DUL-ḫat [...]

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

Night of the 11th, overcast. The 11th, rain DUL. Night of the 12th, a little rain, .... The 12th, one god was seen with the other, sunrise to moonset: 1°30'; ... [... Mercury]

Note

sunrise to moonset: 1°30'

See the article Timed Events

Note A

SymbolSyllablesMeanings
GI6
ĝi6
ku10
mi
 mūšu: night
ṣalāmu: cause to become dark, darkened, obscured
U.DIŠ
11		 eleven
ŠU2 to set (heavenly body)
the west
to cover
U.DIŠ
11		 eleven
AN
DINGIR
ILU
 Sky, Heaven, Mars
Deity, Determinative for a deity
God
DUL.PA
DUL.hat		 some kind of weather associated with rain.
GI6
ĝi6
ku10
mi
 mūšu: night
ṣalāmu: cause to become dark, darkened, obscured
12 twelve
A.AN
ŠEG3		 zanānu: rain
I I
U.KA
UGU
MUH		 U.KA
UGU
MUH
ME
ME6		 100, be, being, silence, stiffness, battle, refine; daytime as opposed to night
Where
12 twelve
AN.KI.AN.IGI AN.KI.AN.IGI
DIŠ Constantly, always, one, sixty,
if
ušu3
ba3
es2
sin		 šalāšā: thirty, 30
half

the moon
NA do, sky, be, heaven, man, not, lie,
U.KA
UGU
MUH		 U.KA
UGU
MUH
ME
ME6		 100, be, being, silence, stiffness, battle, refine; daytime as opposed to night
Where
DUL.PA
DUL.hat		 some kind of weather associated with rain.

Note B

A. The moon observations.

17. Towards the evening of the 12th the god was seen with the god (= full moon, see p. 42): 6m time between sunrise and moonset the next morning (Rs. 16).
Full moon March 26, 9h evening. The 12th Adar begins in the evening of March 25 (this time is the point in question here, as is clear from line 16). March 26 early moonset and sunrise at the same time.

TRANSLATION FROM: Paul V. Neugebaner und Ernst F. Weidner (1915) Ein astronomischer Beobachtungstext aus dem 37. Jahre Nebukadnezars II (- 567/66).

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