Lunar eclipse from 28/29. September 424 BC Chr.

The lunar eclipse recorded in Babylonian sources from 28/29. September 424 BC Chr. Belongs to the genus of ACT texts . This record gained particular importance through reference to the Achaemenid King Artaxerxes I. Today the cuneiform tablet BM 34787 is in the British Museum in London .

Babylonian mention

The astronomical event mentioned was a partial lunar eclipse , which had to be dated precisely based on the information in the cuneiform text. The lunar eclipse fell in a leap year of the Babylonian calendar and began in the late evening hours of September 28  ,  424 BC. The scribe of the Babylonian cuneiform text noted the exact time of the lunar eclipse:

“[Artaxerxes I, 41st year]: On the night of the 14th Ululu , 50 deg. After sunset, the covering of the moon began . The sky was cloudy. "

- BM 34787

See also

• Lunar eclipse from 16./17. July 523 BC Chr.
• Lunar eclipse of April 5, 397 BC Chr.
• Lunar eclipse of August 30th 367 BC Chr.
• Ivory prism from Nineveh

literature

• Francis Richard Stephenson : Historical Eclipses and Earth's rotation . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, ISBN 0-521-46194-4

Web links

• NASA: lunar eclipse of 28/29. September 424 BC Chr.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Date in the proleptic Julian calendar .
2. ^ Francis Richard Stephenson: Historical Eclipses and Earth's rotation . P. 168.