The investigation of astronomical tablet VAT 4956, 13 lunar + 15 planetary observations. Nebuchadnezzar 'year 37' per Seder-Olam -Torah Discovery Chronology is 404 BCE +/- 1 year. I am hoping to get a few perspectives comparing the tablet observations with the sky-charts from 404 BCE. Of the 28 VAT 4956 observations: How many, if any, conflict with 404 BCE?
(If 404 has conflicts please also test years 405 & 403 BCE. ) Assume planet names unknown in case the observed differ w/ the presumed. Assume month one 'Nissan' started in either March or April. As depends when extra month 'leap year' declared.
Please give detail why, if any observation/s conflict, so we can consider if/how able to reconcile.
Thank you, roger m.
1www.caeno.org/pdf/F019_Translation.pdf
2 www.starrynight.com or try: www.ap-i.net/skychart//en/start
Roger M. Pearlman Yec
The given observations are insufficient to ascertain the year of observations with certainty.
Given positions of the moon, sun and planets can not predict the year.
Data is stated in terms of cubit.
A cubit is defined as the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger.
As such the measurement itself is person specific. This will add to the uncertainty in the result found by any means.
check out Pearlman YeC 'Ten Historical Solar Eclipses' that helps support our assignment of VAT 4956 to 404 before Christian era.
start study at 'Pearlman vs Ptolemy Canon' at ResearchGate.
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good question. i would have to review and see if the observation location is a given, or if it is another unknown variable to try and solve for.
3760-404=3356 anno-mundi is Nebuchadnezzar year 3356-3319=37.
9 years prior in 3347 his year 28, he had pushed into Egypt as had been predicted by Jeremiah, who had gone down in 3339, and likely left with a cooperative ruler in place.
Recall within decades his son Nabonidus I would be spending years in Taiman. So Egypt and Bavel no longer at war.
I assumed the observations were in Mesopotamia, but we should not rule out if elsewhere in the Babylonian Empire sphere of influence.
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