Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Eclipse" in English language version.
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The new translation runs as follows: (Obverse) "On the ... day of the new moon in [the month] ḫiyaru the Sun went down, its gate-keeper was Ršp". (Reverse) "Two livers were examined: danger". [...] As pointed out by Sawyer and Stephenson, Ršp is probably to be identified with the planet Mars. [...] Of the candidate eclipses [...], the one occurring on 5 March 1223 BC is the only one during which the plant Mars was above the horizon.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)The new translation runs as follows: (Obverse) "On the ... day of the new moon in [the month] ḫiyaru the Sun went down, its gate-keeper was Ršp". (Reverse) "Two livers were examined: danger". [...] As pointed out by Sawyer and Stephenson, Ršp is probably to be identified with the planet Mars. [...] Of the candidate eclipses [...], the one occurring on 5 March 1223 BC is the only one during which the plant Mars was above the horizon.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) "What is a deep eclipse? The smaller star is behind the bigger star"The new translation runs as follows: (Obverse) "On the ... day of the new moon in [the month] ḫiyaru the Sun went down, its gate-keeper was Ršp". (Reverse) "Two livers were examined: danger". [...] As pointed out by Sawyer and Stephenson, Ršp is probably to be identified with the planet Mars. [...] Of the candidate eclipses [...], the one occurring on 5 March 1223 BC is the only one during which the plant Mars was above the horizon.