Cuneiform tablet recording observation of Halley's Comet

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·BM 41462

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Source: Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform tablet recording observation of Halley's Comet.JPG. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_tablet_recording_observation_of_Halley's_Comet.JPG. Description: Observation of Haley's Comet, recorded in Cuneiform on a clay tablet between 22-28 September 164 BCE, Babylon, Iraq. British Museum, London. BM 41462

Why it matters

Transliteration

Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Observation of Haley's Comet, recorded in Cuneiform on a clay tablet between 22-28 September 164 BCE, Babylon, Iraq. British Museum, London. BM 41462

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Image: Gavin.collins — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform tablet recording observation of Halley's Comet.JPG. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_tablet_recording_observation_of_Halley's_Comet.JPG. Description: Observation of Haley's Comet, recorded in Cuneiform on a clay tablet between 22-28 September 164 BCE, Babylon, Iraq. British Museum, London. BM 41462.

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