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152339001

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Clay tablet with two columns of inscription. Astronomical treatise, tablet 1 of the series Mul-Apin ("the plough star") which includes a list of the three divisions of the heavens, the dates (in the ideal 360-day year) of the rising of principal stars and of those which rise and set together, and the constellations in the path of the moon; nearly complete.
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Clay tablet with two columns of inscription. Astronomical treatise, tablet 1 of the series Mul-Apin

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