Celestial / Solar Eclipse

256BC Sep. 16

Event #2717: Solar eclipse observed by Babylonians

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/2717

Geographical sites:

  • Babylon (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #727082)
    Pleiades_icon Babylon settlement, fort Geocontext: Fostat, Cairo
    Description: An ancient fortified city of the Delta of Egypt, located at Babylon in the area today known as Coptic Cairo.

Citations:

Text #3788

Sachs & Hunger. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia
[pp. 19--21]

BM 41616 + 41636 + 41645 + 41797 + 42233

Obv.’
9 – Night of the 25th and the 25th, clouds crossed the sky, gusty wind, rain shower, thunder.
10 – The 26th, clouds crossed the sky, much thunder, rain.

‘Rev.
1’ - … 32° onset and clearing; during its eclipse, the north wind which […]

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