Celestial / Halo

165BC Oct.

Event #2751: Sun surrounded by two halos observed from Babylon

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/2751

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 #3826

Sachs & Hunger. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia
[pp. 493--497]

A: BM 45804 + 45973 + 46038
B: BM 45848 + 45907

A:
Rev.’
4’– […] small locusts attacked […]
5’ – […] big locusts attacked […]

B:
18’ –The 9th ,(October/November) all day very overcast, the north wind blew; the sun was surrounded by 2 halos […]

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