British Museum Cuneiform planisphere K8538

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·uninscribed

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Editorial entry — translation cited from: Wikimedia Commons file: File:British Museum Cuneiform planisphere K8538.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABritish_Museum_Cuneiform_planisphere_K8538.jpg. Description: Part of a circular clay tablet with depictions of constellations (planisphere); the reverse is uninscribed; restored from fragments and incomplete; partly accidentally vitrified in antiquity during the destruction of the place where it was

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Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Part of a circular clay tablet with depictions of constellations (planisphere); the reverse is uninscribed; restored from fragments and incomplete; partly accidentally vitrified in antiquity during th

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Image: BabelStone ( Own work ) — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:British Museum Cuneiform planisphere K8538.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABritish_Museum_Cuneiform_planisphere_K8538.jpg. Description: Part of a circular clay tablet with depictions of constellations (planisphere); the reverse is uninscribed; restored from fragments and incomplete; partly accidentally vitrified in antiquity during the destruction of the place where it was.

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