Society / Mass Death

383BC Mar.

Event #2816: Pestilence in Babylon

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/2816

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 #3896

Sachs & Hunger. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia
[p. 71]

BM 34638

‘Obv.’
13’ - […] there was much “mouth-disease” and risutu in the land1
22’ – A small “fall of fire”2 (in June/July).

  1. in March-April. [nE] ↩

  2. in June-July. [nE] ↩

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