What is Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa?
{{infobox artefact |name = |image =[[File:Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa.jpg|220px]] |image_caption = |material = Clay |size = Length: {{convert|17.14|cm|in|abbr=on}}<br>Width: {{convert|9.2|cm|in|abbr=on}}<br>Thickness: {{convert|2.22|cm|in|abbr=on}} |writing = cuneiform, |created = |period = Neo-Assyrian |place = Kouyunjik |location = Room 55, [[British Museum]], London |id = |registration = {{British-Museum-db|K.160|id=314745}} }} The '''Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa''' is the record of astronomical observations of [[Venus]]. It is preserved in many [[cuneiform]] [[clay tablet|tablet]]s from the first millennium [[BC]]. This astronomical record was probably first done during the reign of King [[Ammisaduqa]] (or Ammizaduga). He was the fourth ruler after [[Hammurabi]]. So, the origins of this text should be dated to around the mid-seventeenth century BC.<ref>{{cite thesis |first=Russell |last=Hobson |title=The exact transmission of texts in the first millennium B.C. |type=PhD thesis |publisher=[[University of Sydney]] |date=2009 |url=http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/5404/1/r-hobson-2009-thesis.pdf}}</ref> The tablet recorded the rise times of [[Venus]] and its first and last visibility on the [[horizon]] before or after [[sunrise]] and [[sunset]]. It records these as lunar dates. These observations are recorded for 21 years.<ref>{{cite book| first=John David |last=North |title=Cosmos: an illustrated history of astronomy and cosmology | url=https://archive.org/details/cosmosillustrate0000nort |publisher=University of Chicago Press |date=2008 |page=[https://archive.org/details/cosmosillustrate0000nort/page/41 41] |isbn=978-0-226-59441-5}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Venus]] [[Category:Astronomical catalogues]] [[Category:Mesopotamia]]