Environment / Insect Infestation

227BC May

Event #2731: Attack of locusts in Babylon

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/2731

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 #3803

Sachs & Hunger. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia
[p. 133]

A: BM 41655 + 41683 + 41866

A:
‘Obv.
23’ – That month (April/May), the 30th, locusts (?)
24’– locusts attacked.

Rev.’
1– The 3rd (May/June), locusts attacked.

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