Celestial / Solar Eclipse

241BC Nov. 28

Event #2726: Solar eclipse observed in Babylon

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/2726

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 #3797

Sachs & Hunger. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia
[p. 79]

RM 720 + 732 + BM + 41522

‘Obv.
3’- […] … […] cleared; 30° onset and clearing; during the eclip[se, ….]

Rev.’

12 – The 5th(?), cold. Night of the 6th, the moon was surrounded by a halo.

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