Abstract
This article addresses the question whether the solar eclipse of April 13th, 1308 BCE can be linked to the well known solar omen in regnal year 10 of Muršili II (KUB 14.4). Taking into account the local horizon at Ḫattuša and the methodological vagueries of applying modern astronomical calculations to ancient observations, this solar eclipse may well have been observed from the southern and south-eastern parts of the city. The correlation of this eclipse with the solar omen ties in nicely with historical dates provided by Pharaonic regnal years and Egyptian lunar data (Low Chronology).
Acknowledgement
I thank Alfred Gautschy, Alfred Hirt, and Oskar Kaelin for comments and suggestions for improvement on a draft of this paper.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Bemerkungen zu Namma und weiteren Wassergottheiten
- Parallel Hurrian and Hittite šumma izbu Omens from Hattuša and Corresponding Akkadian Omens
- A Travelling Lamaštu
- Remarks Concerning the Alleged Solar Eclipse of Muršili II
- The Shadows of a Distant Past
- Deux textes cunéiformes d’une petite collection privée belge
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- Eine mannshohe Leier im altbabylonischen Ištar-Ritual aus Mari (FM 3,no. 2)
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- Hittite Éḫalentuwa- Revisited
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