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Cronología y 607 a. E.C. · Claim record

El diario astronómico VAT 4956, conservado en el Vorderasiatisches Museum de Berlín y editado por Abraham Sachs y Hermann Hunger como Diary No. -567, comienza así: 'Año 37 de Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia'. Las observaciones que registra sitúan ese año en el 568/567 a.e.c., lo que situaría el año dieciocho de Nabucodonosor, cuando Jerusalén fue destruida, en el 587 a.e.c.

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Declaración explícita · 1988 Verificado

El diario astronómico VAT 4956, conservado en el Vorderasiatisches Museum de Berlín y editado por Abraham Sachs y Hermann Hunger como Diary No. -567, comienza así: 'Año 37 de Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia'. Las observaciones que registra sitúan ese año en el 568/567 a.e.c., lo que situaría el año dieciocho de Nabucodonosor, cuando Jerusalén fue destruida, en el 587 a.e.c. electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment VAT.4956, 1988electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment VAT.4956, 1988Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, 1956

La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: La organización sostiene que trece conjuntos de posiciones lunares de la tablilla coinciden con el 588/587 a.e.c. y que, por tanto, la tablilla apoya el 607 a.e.c. (La Atalaya del 1 de noviembre de 2011, págs. 25, 27; su recuadro sobre la tablilla está en las págs. 26-27).

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electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment VAT.4956, “Astronomical diary for year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar II (ADART I, Diary No. -567), obverse line 1”

1988 · pp.46-53 (ADART I, No. -567) · Abraham J. Sachs and Hermann Hunger (edition); Reinhard Pirngruber (digital edition) · Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna (print edition)

“Year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. Month I, (the 1st of which was identical with) the 30th (of the preceding month), the moon became visible behind the Bull of Heaven”

The opening line of the tablet, which fixes the whole set of observations that follow to a named king's named regnal year. The eBL record gives the holding museum as the Vorderasiatisches Museum, the find-site as Babylon, the CDLI number as P421595, and the edition as Sachs and Hunger, Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Volume I: Diaries from 652 B.C. to 262 B.C. (1988), pp. 46-53, No. -567.

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Nota de confianza. The eBL public API record for VAT.4956 was downloaded on 19 September 2026 and the transliteration and English translation read line by line. The eBL viewer page itself is a JavaScript application and returned no text to an automated fetch; the API returns the same edition as structured data.

Procedencia del escaneo. electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen. The edition reproduced there is that of Sachs and Hunger, digitised by Reinhard Pirngruber for the Astronomical Diaries Digital project (Austrian Academy of Sciences), CC BY-SA 3.0.

Corroborado por. src-chr-e-wiseman-1956-p30-37th-year, src-chr-e-ebl-vat4956-year-numbers

Notes. The eBL designation 'Diary No. -567' uses the astronomical year numbering in which -567 is 568 BCE.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-e-ebl-vat4956-line1

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electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment VAT.4956, “Astronomical diary for year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar II: the month III lunar eclipse”

1988 · pp.46-53 (ADART I, No. -567) · Abraham J. Sachs and Hermann Hunger (edition); Reinhard Pirngruber (digital edition) · Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna (print edition)

“The 15th, one god was seen with the other; sunrise to moonset: 7° 30'. A lunar eclipse which passed by […]”

The single lunar eclipse recorded on the tablet. It is one datum among roughly thirty lunar and planetary observations; the Watch Tower's 2011 argument concentrates on it and on one lunar position.

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Nota de confianza. Read in the eBL API record on 19 September 2026. The eBL bibliography for this tablet also carries a discussion entry for F. Richard Stephenson and David M. Willis, “The Earliest Datable Observation of the Aurora Borealis”, Under One Sky (2002), pp. 421-428, with the note “This and other observations in the month imply that the auroral display occurred on the night of March 12/13 in 567 BC”. That date is Stephenson and Willis’s conclusion as reported by eBL, not a finding of eBL’s own, and their chapter was not opened.

Procedencia del escaneo. electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen. The edition reproduced there is that of Sachs and Hunger, digitised by Reinhard Pirngruber for the Astronomical Diaries Digital project (Austrian Academy of Sciences), CC BY-SA 3.0.

Corroborado por. src-chr-e-stephenson-willis-2002

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-e-ebl-vat4956-eclipse

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Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, “Introduction: Egypt and Babylon”

1956 · p.30 · D. J. Wiseman · The Trustees of the British Museum, London

“a fragmentary text, B.M. 33041, which is a religious rather than a 'Chronicle' version of historical events in the thirty-seventh year of Nebuchadrezzar (568/7 B.C.)”

Discussing the Babylonian invasion of Egypt, Wiseman dates Nebuchadnezzar II's thirty-seventh year to 568/567 BCE on the basis of a tablet entirely independent of the astronomical diary VAT 4956.

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Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. Read in the ETANA PDF on 19 September 2026; running head '30 CHRONICLES OF CHALDAEAN KINGS' immediately above. On the same page Wiseman dates the final siege of Jerusalem to '588-586 B.C.'

Procedencia del escaneo. Full scan of the British Museum volume hosted by ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives), an academic digital-library consortium. Copyright the Trustees of the British Museum, 1956.

Corroborado por. src-chr-e-ebl-vat4956-line1

Notes. The same volume, on p. 30, refers to 'the siege of Jerusalem for a time in 588-586 B.C.', i.e. the mainstream range, not 607.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-e-wiseman-1956-p30-37th-year

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