==Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa==

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//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Nineveh\\ 
//Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: British Museum, London\\ 
//Text genre, language//: Akkadian\\ 
[[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P393774 |CDLI page]]\\ 


//Description//: This tablet form the Kuyuncik collection forms the basis for the calculation of the Old Babylonian and earlier Neo-Sumerian period. Although dating to the Neo-Assyrian period, it records obversations of the planet Venus that supposedly date to the reign of the Old Babylonian king Ammisaduqa. (Klaus Wagensonner, University of Oxford)

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