Talk:Mursili's eclipse

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Somebody needs to check the Paul Astrom reference -- according to NASA's map the 1308 eclipse didn't even come near Anatolia (meaning, it would have been partial, not annular). Probably the sun might have risen partially obscured, that might have been noticed, and 4 years after the 1312 eclipse, people may have watched the sun with suspicion, still the 1312 date seems vasty more likely. Another point is, however, that the eclipse may have been "moved" retrospectively to align with the campaign, this sort of thing is frequent in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, lots of eclipses there have no historical counterpart. dab (&#5839;) 13:44, 30 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't think the eclipse was moved. In the earlier years of Mursili's annal, he's preparing to attack Uhha-Ziti of Arzawa. A meteor streaks out of the sky and crashes into Apasas, where Uhha-Ziti was staying. Why did Mursili not insert the solar portent then? -Zimriel|t 15:18, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

If I remember correctly the eclipse is not mentioned in the Annals, but in the fragmentary text KUB 14.4 = CTH 70; can anyone check please? Thanks, Federico Rocchi [14 May 2007].

Something's wrong here. The NASA map gives dates that are both one year later than those in the article (i.e., 1307 instead of 1308 BC) -155.42.196.23 (talk) 09:37, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It's because NASA uses the Julian calendar for dates prior to 1582; the Julian calendar has no year zero. Historians are requested to add a year when encountering NASA dates.--Subwoofer (talk) 09:00, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * That has nothing to do with Julian calendar, it's just a more convenient way for astronomers to calculate if they introduce a year zero: Year_zero. --Proofreader (talk) 07:38, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Julian calendar?
I removed this note - doesn't make any sense to me. Who would give Julian calendar dates before the Julian calendar was invented?! It can only be a reconstructed date from the Gregorian calendar. SockPuppetForTomruen (talk) 21:21, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note that the dates given are in the Julian calendar; this means that the 24 June eclipse was shortly before, not after, summer solstice of 1312 BC.

Other dates
In The Solar Omen of Musili II, Peter J. Huber, Journal of theAmerican Oriental Society, Oct-Dec, 2001 the dates of March 13 1334 BCE and January 9 1339 BCE are proposed. Also in Ancient Astronomical Observations and Near Eastern Chronology, W.A. Mitchel, JACF Vol 3, 1990, some ultra-low chronology dates are proposed. That later paper is availble at http://www.newchronology.org/cgi-bin/somsid.cgi?session=1216316815&page=html/volumes/03

Ploversegg (talk) 17:59, 17 July 2008 (UTC)ploversegg

The eclipse is not mentioned in the Annals of Mursili.
Despite what it says at the beginning of the article, the eclipse is not mentioned in the Annals of Mursili. It is actually reported in a prayer text. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.73.31.50 (talk) 18:05, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

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