Image: MulApin-BritishMuseum
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Description: Asset number 152339001 Description 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.
Title: MulApin-BritishMuseum
Credit: British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/152339001
Author: British Museum
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