Eclipse tablet

Eclipse tablet

Description

Tablet with a list of eclipses between 518 and 465, mentioning the death of king Xerxes

Date

ca. 465 BCE

Inscriptionnr

? (Akkadian)

Creator

Jona Lendering

Museum

London, British Museum

Licence

CC0 1.0 Universal

Categories

Babylonia, Persia

Tags

Source, Tablet

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