Celestial / Solar Eclipse

249BC May 4

Event #2720: Solar eclipse observed in Babylon

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Geographical sites:

Babylon (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #727082)

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 #3791

Sachs & Hunger. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia
[p. 51]

BM 45723

‘Obv.’

8’ – The 28th, clouds were in the sky; 90° daytime [… solar eclipse…]
9’ – … onset and clearing: during its eclipse, […]

‘Rev.’
4’ – […] That [month,] pregnant women died in childbirth…

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