Late Babylonian clay tablet: table of lunar longitudes. Contains a table for the daily change in the duration of the visibility of the moon on the thirty days of the month of the winter solstice according to the tradition of the city of Babylon.
Production date: 7thC BC
Excavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik
Asia: Middle East: Iraq: Iraq, North: Kouyunjik
Curator's comments:
The duration of visibility is measured in 'time-degrees' of four minutes each. The numerical errors in the text and the addition of two omens at the end concerning the rising sun and a woman giving birth to a ewe or a cat suggest that the tablet was written as a school exercise.
**The image is the original photograph of the tablet in the museum. The tablet we will hot send may have some typographical errors. Please order with this in mind.
Product code: Replica Late Babylonian Clay hot Tablet