Description: I create original replicas of ancient artifacts, particularly clay tablets, which are not museum photographs but crafted by me. When you place an order, it will be shipped to your address within approximately one week. Feel free to reach out for custom orders and projects. Thank you. Cuneiform tablet with observations of Venus, Neo-Assyrian, 7th century B.C.E., from Nineveh, northern Iraq, clay, 17.14 x 9.20 x 2.22 cm This tablet is one of the most important (and controversial) cuneiform tablets for reconstructing Mesopotamian chronology before around 1400 B.C.E.The text of the tablet is a copy, made at Nineveh in the seventh century B.C.E., of observations of the planet Venus made in the reign of Ammisaduqa, king of Babylon, about 1000 years earlier. Modern astronomers have used the details of the observations in an attempt to calculate the dates of Ammisaduqa. Ideally this process would also allow us to date the Babylonian rulers of the early second and late third millennium B.C.E. Unfortunately, however, there is much uncertainty in the dating because the records are so inconsistent. This has led to different chronologies being adopted with some scholars favoring a "high" chronology while others adopt a "middle" or "low" range of dates. There are good arguments for each of these.
Price: 255 USD
Location: 29000
End Time: 2024-05-10T19:55:59.000Z
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