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5968[v2023-12-04] 01
17 2040 [Wed 2025-04-16] – In consequence of the strength of my findings in BM 41222 vs my
previous, now obsolete, analysis of BM 32312.
Edited 5968[v2023-12-04]
01
18 2040 [Thu 2025-04-17] – Cleansed for brevity and clarity vs my initial meandering work.
My Re-Analysis of
Discovering, and/or Confirming
the Exact Regnal Years of Šamaš-šumu-ukīn, King of Babylon
Under His Brother Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria
and the Exact Date of the Hiritu War
Between the Two of Them During Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th Year
By Means of 15 Precise
Astronomical Observations
As Recorded on BM
32312
My Within Re-Analysis of BM 32312
was Prompted by Means of the
19
Precise Astronomical Observations Recorded on BM 41222
Abstract and Summary:
Upon making my analysis of BM 41222,
I realized that my prior work on BM 32312 (in 2014) is obsolete and in need of prompt
revision, because of its importance in order to correctly establish the date of
the Hiritu War faught in Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, which event had heretofore been serving
as my chief anchor in time for knowing Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s years of
reign.
The Hiritu battle is also mentioned in the Akitu Chronicle (BM 86739) (from caeno)
written by a scribe intended to record the interruptions of Akitu's
celebrations. His registration says:
"On the 16th year (of the kingdom) of Shamash-shuma-ukin, from the month of Ayyar to the month of Tebet, the
butler puts up a selection in Akkad. On the 19th day of the month of Tebet, Asiria and Akkad got into
a war. Avoiding the enemy, the king turned back to Babylon. On the 27th day of month of Addar, the
Assyrian army and the Akkadian army fought a battle in Hiritu. The Akkadian army broke the battle and suffered a
smashing defeat. The state of war persisted; the battles came one after
another.”
A primary obstacle for correctly dating BM 32312 has been, for many, the
confused numbering of the columns. That is, as those columns relate to order of
time. Being aware of this problem, after completing my analysis of column i, and realizing that the one eclipse event recorded in
column ii could not possibly be placed in time less than 2˝+ years after all the
six very closely dated events in column i, I concluded that column ii should
probably fill in the gap. And so it did! Column iii
proved to be the last one of the four columns.
The Babylonian clay tablet known as British Museum
41222 is a very exact record of a number of events tied primarily to Mercury
and Mars. After first working my way through the other clay tablets in the list
of eight clay tablets under References below, I was able to unequivocally
correlate almost all the events recorded on BM 41222 with their equivalent
celestial events as rendered in Starry Night Pro 8 (SN8).
The following correlations were identified and confirmed on the BM 32312
clay tablet. Here listed in order of time:
1. Col.i., l. 1 Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month I, the 1st New Moon #1 vs Rainy season PM, Feb 23, 652 BCE
2. Col.i., l. 6 Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month I, the 14th Astronomical Full Moon AM,
Mar 8, 652 BCE
3. Col.i., l.
6-8 Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month I, the 14th Mercury vs Pisces AM, Mar 8, 652 BCE
4. Col.i., l. 6-8 Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month I, the 14th Saturn vs Pisces PM,
Mar 8, 652 BCE
5. Col.i., l. 10-11 Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month I, 22nd - 24th Mars vs Scorpion AM, Mar 16-18, 652 BCE
6. Col.i., l. 12+ Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month I, the 25th Mars vs alpha Scorpii vs Rainy season AM, Mar 19, 652 BCE
7. Col.iv., l. 7’ Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month XIII, the 5th Mercury vs Pisces vs Rainy season AM, Feb 15, 651 BCE
8. Col.iv., l. 14’-15’ Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month XIII, the 15th Astronomical Full Moon AM, Feb 26, 651 BCE
9. Col.iv., l. 14’-15’ Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month XIII, the 19th Venus vs Pi Arietas vs Mars AM,
Mar 2, 651 BCE
10. Col.iv., l. 14’-15’ Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month XIII, the 19th Moon vs α Scorpii AM,
Mar 2, 651 BCE
11. Col.iv., l. 15’-16’ Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month XIII, the 20th Mars vs Pi Arietas AM, Mar 3, 651
BCE
12. Col.iv., l. 15’-16’ Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month XIII, the 20th Jupiter vs Moon vs halo AM, Mar 3, 651 BCE
13.
Col.iv., l. 17’-21’ Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 16th year, month XIII, the 27th The Hiritu war in
Sippar Mar 10, 651 BCE
14. Col.ii., l. 1-2 Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 18th year, month ….., the 15th Lunar eclipse vs the Old Man (Perseus) Midnight, Nov 5-6, 650 BCE
15. Col.iii., l. 4’-5’ Šamaš-šumu-ukīn’s 19th year, month ….., the 27th Lunar halo vs Mercury AM, May 14, 649
BCE
References:
From https://github.com/jacob-pro/astro-tablets
:
Support for these texts:
·
BM
35115... (LBAT 1415-7, ADT V No.3)
·
BM
32234 (LBAT 1419, ADT V No.4)
·
BM
38462 (LBAT 1420, ADT V No.6)
·
BM
33066 (LBAT 1477, Strm. Kambys. 400)
Re BM 32312:
Origin:
Acquired by the British Museum in 1876 [1].
First
publication: in 1974 by A J Sachs [2, p. 48].
Also known
as ADT I Diary No. -651.
Upper edge
1 [At the command of ....] Bēl? may it be
well.
Col.i
1 [Month I, ....,] the moon became visible in a
cloud; it was bright? and high.
2 [Beginn]ing of the night, overcast. Night of
the 1st, the river level rose. The 1st, the sun was surrounded by a halo. Night
3 of the 2nd, (and) the 2nd, overcast. The
south wind blew. The 3rd, very overcast. In the afternoon it rained.
4 Night of the 4th, (and) the 4th, it rained.
The 6th, middle part of the day, the sun was surrounded by a halo.
5 It was split towards the east. The 7th, the
moon was surrounded by a halo. The river level rose.
6 Night of the 12th, overcast. The 12th, the
13th, the 14th, overcast. The 14th, one god was seen with the other.
7 The river level receded. Mercury's last
appearance in the east behind Pisces,
8 and Saturn's last appearance behind Pisces; I
did not watch because the days were overcast.
9 The 17th, in the morning, overcast. Thunder,
gusty south wind, rain, small (hail)stones.
10 Mars became stationary in
the area of the Lip of the Scorpion, it came close to the bright star
11 of the Scorpion's head.
From the 22nd to the 24th, [....]
12 The 25th, Mars was east
of the star to the right of the Scorpion [....]
13 The river level rose.
Night of the 20th, overcast. Lightning, thun[der, ....]
14 a little [....], strong
wind. Night of the 21st, rain [....]
15 A little rain, lightning
flashed, the south wind [....]
16 2 cubits in front of the
Scales. .... [....]
17 to the right of the
Scorpion 1? [....]
18 .... The sun set in a
cloud. .... [....]
19 It rained slowly, the
south wind [....]
20 [....] night [....]
(rest of column broken)
Col. ii
1 The north wind blew. The 15th, an eclipse?
[....]
2 first appearance in the Old Man. The river
level [....]
3 was placed towards the south. .... [....]
4 first part of the night, .... [....]
5 .... [....]
6 .... [....]
(rest of column broken)
Col. iii
1' of .... [....]
2' in the after[noon ....]
3' .... [....]
4' The north wind blew. Lunar eclipse ....
[....]
5' The 20th?, the moon was surrounded by a halo,
(and) Mercury [stood] in i[t ....]
6' strong wind. The 21st, .... [....]
Col. iv
1' [....] the star of [....]
2' [....] .... right? of the moon [....]
3' [....] .... [....]
4' [....] .... [....]
5' [....] .... right of the moon? .... [....]
6' [....] .... thunder, [....]
7' .... The 5th, Mercury's first appearance in
the east in Pisces [....]
8' .... towards the south [....]
9' .... It rained slowly. The 12th, a halo ....
The river level rose [....]
10' The troops of Babylonia
fought against the troops of Assyria; the troops .... [....]
11' The 13th, the river
level rose a little. The 14th, a cloud bank lay to the right of the sun. Night
of the 15th, overcast. Three ra[inbows,]
12' one in the west, one
between north and west, and one in the north, were seen. Rain, lightning,
thunder, ....
13' clouds?. The 15th, one
god was seen with the other. Gusty south wind, haze crossed the face of the
sky. Night of the 16th, the moon was surrounded by a large halo.
14' The 16th, the sun was
surrounded by a halo. The 18th, the sun was surrounded by a ... halo; the south
wind blew. The 19th, Venus
15' stood in the region of
Aries, 10 fingers behind Mars; the moon was surrounded by a halo, and α
Scorpii stood in it. The 20th, Mars was 1 finger to the left
16' of the front? of Aries;
it came close. The moon was surrounded by a halo, Jupiter stood in it. The south
wind blew.
17' [....] .... The 27th, a
rainbow whose brightness was very great stretched in the east.
18' [.... in] Hiritu in the
province of Sippar the troops of Babylonia and of Assyria fou[ght with each]
other, and the troops of Babylonia withdrew and were heavily defeated.
20' [.... The no]rth wind
blew. The 28th a little rain. In the afternoon a very red? rainbow stretched in
the east.
21' [....] The 27th, the
river level rose a little. A rain shower fell. That year little rain ....
[....]
Considerations and
astronomical correlations, beginning with a focus on 652 BCE:
Upper edge
1 [At the command of ....] Bēl? may it be
well.
Col.i
1 [Month I, ....,] the moon became visible in a
cloud; it was bright? and high.
2 [Beginn]ing of the night, overcast. Night of
the 1st, the river level rose. The 1st, the sun was surrounded by a halo. Night
Ok fit to line 1: Terribly early New Moon #1 when first “bright and high”
on Feb 23, 652 BCE. However, the bad weather may well indicate that the
winter season was not yet past:
2 …Night
3 of the 2nd, (and) the 2nd, overcast. The
south wind blew. The 3rd, very overcast. In the afternoon it rained.
4 Night of the 4th, (and) the 4th, it rained.
The 6th, middle part of the day, the sun was surrounded by a halo.
5 It was split towards the east. The 7th, the
moon was surrounded by a halo. The river level rose.
6 Night of the 12th, overcast. The 12th, the
13th, the 14th, overcast. The 14th, one god was seen with the other.
7 The river level receded. Mercury's last
appearance in the east behind Pisces,
8 and Saturn's last appearance behind Pisces; I
did not watch because the days were overcast.
Perfect fit to line 6: Mar 8, 652 BCE: ”The 14th,
one god was seen with the other…” at sunrise:
6… The 14th, one god was seen
with the other.
7 The river level receded. Mercury's last
appearance in the east behind Pisces,
8 and Saturn's last appearance behind Pisces; I
did not watch because the days were overcast.
Perfect fit to lines 6-8: On Mar 8, 652 BCE, “The 14th… Mercury's last appearance in the east behind Pisces… I did not watch because the days were overcast.”
Perfect fit to lines 6-8: At evening watch on Mar 8, 652 BCE, “The 14th… Saturn's last appearance behind Pisces [The Swallow]; I did not watch because the days
were overcast.”
9 The 17th, in the morning, overcast. Thunder,
gusty south wind, rain, small (hail)stones.
10 Mars became stationary in
the area of the Lip of the Scorpion, it came close to the bright star
11 of the Scorpion's head.
From the 22nd to the 24th, [....]
Perfect fit to lines 10 and 11: On Mar 16-24, 652 BCE “Mars became stationary in the area
of the Lip of the Scorpion, it came close to the bright star of
the Scorpion's head. From the 22nd to the 24th [=Mar
16-18, 652 BCE],”
12 The 25th, Mars was east
of the star to the right of the Scorpion [....]
13 The river level rose.
Night of the 20th, overcast. Lightning, thun[der, ....]
13 The river level rose.
Night of the 20th, overcast. Lightning, thun[der, ....]
14 a little [....], strong
wind. Night of the 21st, rain [....]
15 A little rain, lightning
flashed, the south wind [....]
16 2 cubits in front of the
Scales. .... [....]
17 to the right of the
Scorpion 1? [....]
18 .... The sun set in a
cloud. .... [....]
19 It rained slowly, the
south wind [....]
20 [....] night [....]
(rest of column broken)
Perfect fit to lines 12+: On Mar 19, 652 BCE “The 25th, Mars was east of the star
to the right of the Scorpion”. Antares aka alpha Scorpii. Mar 19, 652
BCE: Within a day of Mars being at the apex of its turnaround. Notice the rainy
season weather, winter. (Surprising that they did not make that month Addar 2, i.e. an intercalary month.)
1' [....] the star of [....]
2' [....] .... right? of the moon [....]
3' [....] .... [....]
4' [....] .... [....]
Col. iv [TLT©: Reviewing the BM photos of BM32312 it
appears that, in the order of time, Col. iv ought to be numbered Col. ii]
5' [....] .... right of the moon? .... [....]
6' [....] .... thunder, [....]
7' .... The 5th, Mercury's first appearance in
the east in Pisces [....]
Excellent fit to line 7’: On Feb 15, 651 BCE, Šamaš-šuma-ukin ‘s 16th
year, month XIII ” The 5th,
Mercury's first appearance in the east in Pisces” (the Swallow), more excellent considering also the rainy season at
that time of the year.
8' .... towards the south [....]
9' .... It rained slowly. The 12th, a halo ....
The river level rose [....]
10' The troops of Babylonia
fought against the troops of Assyria; the troops .... [....]
11' The 13th, the river
level rose a little. The 14th, a cloud bank lay to the right of the sun. Night
of the 15th, overcast. Three ra[inbows,]
12' one in the west, one
between north and west, and one in the north, were seen. Rain, lightning,
thunder, ....
13' clouds?. The 15th, one
god was seen with the other. Gusty south wind, haze crossed the face of the
sky. Night of the 16th, the moon was surrounded by a large halo.
Excellent fit to line 13’: On Feb 26, 651 BCE “The 15th, one god was seen with the other.” That is, the sign of the point in time of the astronomical
New Moon has passed.
14' The 16th, the sun was
surrounded by a halo. The 18th, the sun was surrounded by a ... halo; the south
wind blew. The 19th, Venus
15' stood in the region of
Aries, 10 fingers behind Mars; the moon was surrounded by a halo, and α
Scorpii stood in it. The 20th, Mars was 1 finger to the left
Excellent fit to line 14’ and 15’: On Mar 2, 651 BCE, Šamaš-šuma-ukin’s 16th year, month
XIII, “The
19th, Venus stood in the region of Aries, 10 fingers behind Mars”
v
14' The 16th, the sun was
surrounded by a halo. The 18th, the sun was surrounded by a ... halo; the south
wind blew. The 19th, Venus
15' stood in the region of
Aries, 10 fingers behind Mars; the moon was surrounded by a halo, and α
Scorpii stood in it. The 20th, Mars was 1 finger to the left
Excellent
fit to line 14’ and 15’: On Mar 2, 651 BCE, Šamaš-šuma-ukin’s 16th year, month XIII, “The 19th, the moon was surrounded by a halo,
and α Scorpii stood in it”
15' … The 20th, Mars was 1 finger
to the left
16' of the front? of Aries;
it came close. The moon was surrounded by a halo, Jupiter stood in it. The south
wind blew.
Perfect fit to lines 15’ and 16’: “The 20th, Mars
was 1 finger to the left of the front? [left of the front paw
aka. Pi Arietas/TLT©] of Aries; it came close…”
15' … The 20th…
16' … The moon was surrounded by
a halo, Jupiter stood in it. The south wind blew.
Perfect fit to lines 15’ and 16’: Jupiter 12° from the Moon while in the halo of the
Moon (22°-23° diameter) on the 20th day of month XIII.
17' [....] .... The 27th, a
rainbow whose brightness was very great stretched in the east.
18' [.... in] Hiritu in the
province of Sippar the troops of Babylonia and of Assyria fou[ght with each]
other, and the troops of Babylonia withdrew and were heavily defeated.
20' [.... The no]rth wind
blew. The 28th a little rain. In the afternoon a very red? rainbow stretched in
the east.
21' [....] The 27th, the
river level rose a little. A rain shower fell. That year little rain ....
[....]
The Hiritu War
is thus exactly and unequivocally
dated to
March 10, 651 BCE
the 27th day of the
XIII month of Šamaš-šuma-ukin‘s 16th year.
Col. ii [TLT©:
Reviewing the BM photos of BM32312 it appears that, in the order of time, Col. ii
ought to be numbered Col. iii]
1 The north wind blew. The 15th, an eclipse?
[....]
2 first appearance in the Old Man. The river
level [....]
3 was placed towards the south. .... [....]
4 first part of the night, .... [....]
5 .... [....]
6 .... [....]
(rest of column broken)
The Jul 2, 652 BCE eclipse (umbral) ended 29 min before
sunset in Babylon; not visible. The Moon was then far away from Perseus, the Old Man:
Prior
to Jul 2, 652 BCE, the closest eclipses visible from Babylon were Jan 19, 653
BCE and Jul 13, 653 BCE. At the time of both, the Moon was far away from Perseus, the Old Man:
Good fit to line 1 and 2: After Jul 2, 652 BCE, the closest
eclipse in time visible from Babylon was Nov 6, 650 BCE, at which time the
eclipse did occur next to the Old Man (Perseus)
On Nov 5-6, 650 BCE: “The 15th, an eclipse? …first appearance in the Old Man.”
Col. iii [TLT©: Reviewing the BM photos of BM32312 it
appears that, in the order of time, Col. iii ought to be numbered Col. iv]
1' of .... [....]
2' in the after[noon ....]
3' .... [....]
4' The north wind blew. Lunar eclipse ....
[....]
5' The 20th?, the moon was surrounded by a halo,
(and) Mercury [stood] in i[t ....]
6' strong wind. The 21st, .... [....]
Excellent fit to lines 5’ and 6’: Given that the diameter of the Moon’s halo is
22°-23°, I find that on May 14, 649 BCE Mercury was located at the inner edge
of the halo shortly before sunrise.
Exactly as
recorded: “The
20th?, the moon was surrounded by a halo, (and) Mercury [stood] in i[t ....]”,
except that “20th?” was ‘27th’, and given also
that the Moon is never near Mercury (and the Sun) except for about two days
before or after astronomical New Moon,
i.e. near the
end or beginning of each lunar month, and when it gets too close to the Sun it
is invisible and is not bright enough to be surrounded by a halo.
Our
Creator God has humor!
Coincidence
or Design?
You
Decide…
Upon finalizing the above list[1] of 15 astronomical observations as recorded on BM
32312, I was made to realize some strange correlations between those dates and
my own beginnings. Coincidence or design? Pure chance or Providence? You decide:
1.
The
number 2,600, is the 100-fold multiple of 26, 2,600 meaning much the same as
26, albeit on a higher level. The number 26 has multiple correlations with God,
our Creator, with the name Jehovah, and with the Hebrew letter aleph, the first
letter of the alphabet.
2.
651
BCE is exactly 2,600 years prior to 1950, the year I first saw the light of day
outside my mother’s womb.
3.
Mar
3, the date when the exact positions of Mars, Jupiter, the haloed Moon, and the
star called Pi Arietas were observed and recorded on the clay tablet BM 32312, is
also the date when I first saw the light of day outside my mother’s womb.
4.
Mar
10, the date of the Hiritu war in Sippar between the armies of two brothers, the
King of Babylon and the King of Assyria, was begun and lost by the King of Babylon,
is also the date when the representative of the State of California created an
image (called Birth Certificate) of my name in behalf of the State.
5.
Thus,
in a sense, it might be said that the war between Babylon and the Sons and
Daughters of the Creator, the war between the brainless and heartless Tin men
of the State and between God’s own living beings of flesh and blood, had an
important beginning exactly, to the day, 2,600 years prior to the day that I
first saw the light of day.
6.
Also
evidenced by the fact that this study of mine completely revises my prior study
of BM 32312, 11 years ago this year. Thus, the constant war between truth and
error within each of our minds, mine included.
7.
Praise
the Lord of Hosts, our Creator and Redeemer, and the name Jehoshua, used by One
of His foremost Sons, who stood up for the truth even to the point of death on
a cross. ‘Sign or cross’ being also the meaning of the last letter of the
Hebrew alphabet: taw. Revelation 21:6.
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