File:British Museum Cuneiform planisphere K8538.jpg
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English: 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 found. Found in Kuyunjik, ancient Nineveh, in the so-called “Library of Ashurbanipal”. Neo-assyrian period. العربية: لوح دائري من العصر الاشوري القديم يعود للقرن السابع عشر قبل الميلاد، عثر عليه في مكتبة اشوربانيبال في الموصل، محفوظ في المتحف البريطاني. مدون من وجه واحد بالكتابة المسمارية، يمثل خارطة السماء وتحديد مواقع النجوم والابراج، يقسم قبة السماء الى ثمانية حقول مثلثة متساوية، كل حقل بزاوية 45 درجة، تستعرض الحقول اشكال الابراج واسماءها، بالاضافة الى الفصول الاربعة (الصيف والخريف والشتاء والربيع) وتعاقب الليل والنهار. |
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| Date | 24 June 201 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | BabelStone (Own work) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Details
| British Museum reference | K.8538 |
| Detailed 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 found. |
| Size | Diameter: 14.1 centimetres Thickness: 3.2 centimetres |
| Location | Room 55 |
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