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The game Terraria features a solar eclipse as a rare event that causes monsters inspired by popular horror fiction and films to attack the player. In Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Black Ops III , the Zombies maps Der Riese and The Giant feature a solar eclipse.
The lunar eclipse tablets (tablets 15–22) were transliterated and translated in Aspects of Babylonian Celestial Divination, by F. Rochberg-Halton, 1989. The solar omens (tablets 23–29) were published as The Solar Omens of Enuma Anu Enlil edited by W. Van Soldt, 1995.
Not every eclipse would provoke the ritual. Certain circumstances had to be fulfilled. Tablet 20 of the Enuma Anu Enlil, a record collection of astrological omens, states: "if an eclipse (of the moon) takes place and the planet Jupiter is present in that eclipse, the king is safe; a noble dignitary will die in his stead." Another source states ...
The clay tablets have cuneiform inscriptions (wedge-shaped characters used in ancient writing systems) that “represent the oldest examples of compendia of lunar-eclipse omens yet discovered ...
One of the Tărtăria tablets. In 1961, members of a team led by Nicolae Vlassa (an archaeologist at the National Museum of Transylvanian History, Cluj-Napoca) reportedly unearthed three inscribed but unfired clay tablets, twenty-six clay and stone figurines, a shell bracelet, and the burnt, [dubious – discuss] broken, and disarticulated bones of an adult female sometimes referred to as ...
Inscribed on the tablet was an ancient, now-extinct script promising death to anyone who exposed the contents of the barrow. It is likely that the winged figure in the carving is Zushakon himself. After he departs, Zushakon may return yet again during the first earthquake or solar eclipse following an earlier, successful summoning of him.
The House of Egibi was a family from within ancient Babylonia who were, amongst other things, involved in mercantile activities.. The family’s financial activities are known to archaeologists via an archive of about 1,700 clay tablets spanning five generations of the family, dating to a period from around 600 to 482 BCE.
The Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa (Enuma Anu Enlil Tablet 63) is the record of astronomical positions for Venus, as preserved in numerous cuneiform tablets dating from the first millennium BC. It is believed that this astronomical record was first compiled during the reign of King Ammisaduqa (or Ammizaduga), the fourth ruler after Hammurabi .