Cuneiform tablet recording observation of Halley's Comet

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·BM 41462

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Editorial entry — translation cited 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

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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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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