La chronologie et 607 av. n. è. · Claim record

L’année de règne portée sur VAT 4956 n’est pas la restitution moderne d’une seule ligne endommagée : “Year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon” ouvre l’avers, la tranche gauche répète “Year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar” en guise d’étiquette, et la tranche supérieure porte une ligne de raccord donnant l’ouverture de l’année 38, suivie d’une seconde mention “Year 37”, brisée.

Claim ID claim-chronology-vat4956-year-number-thriceConcerns 1988Contexte

Contexte · 1988 Vérifié

L’année de règne portée sur VAT 4956 n’est pas la restitution moderne d’une seule ligne endommagée : “Year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon” ouvre l’avers, la tranche gauche répète “Year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar” en guise d’étiquette, et la tranche supérieure porte une ligne de raccord donnant l’ouverture de l’année 38, suivie d’une seconde mention “Year 37”, brisée. Source: electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment VAT.4956, 1988 Source: Online review (no journal of publication stated), 2008

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Évalué par des pairs / universitaire Vérifié

electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment VAT.4956, “Astronomical diary for year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar II: catch-line and left edge”

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 38 of Nebuchadnezzar, month I, the 1st (of which followed the 30th of the preceding month): dense clouds so that [I did not see the moon ...] ... [Year 37 of Nebuchad]nezzar”

The king’s name and regnal year are written on the tablet in more than one place. “Year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon” opens the obverse; the top edge carries a catch-line giving the opening of year 38 and then a second, broken “Year 37 …”; and the left edge repeats “Year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar” as a label. The regnal year is therefore not a modern restoration of a single damaged line.

Source officielle (s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet) Copie archivée ou autre copie (s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Read in the eBL API record on 19 September 2026, surface by surface (obverse, top, left). The structured record also lists two “dates in text”, year 37 and year 38, for the same king.

Provenance de la numérisation. 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.

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Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-chr-e-ebl-vat4956-year-numbers

Évalué par des pairs / universitaire Étayé

Online review (no journal of publication stated), “Review of Rolf J. Furuli, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian Chronology, Volume II (Oslo: Awatu Publishers, 2nd ed., 2008)”

2008 · Hermann Hunger

“As for someone adding the numbers 37 and 38, there is no way of successfully adding cuneiform writing to a dried tablet. ... I state that the accusation is utterly groundless”

Hermann Hunger, co-editor of the standard edition of the astronomical diaries, responds in detail to the argument of Rolf Furuli, a Witness and former lecturer in Semitic languages at Oslo, that VAT 4956 supports 588/587 rather than 568/567 BCE and that the tablet may have been altered. Hunger also grants Furuli's general point that truth is not decided by 'the consensus of the majority of scholars'.

Source officielle (s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. The full review was fetched and read on 19 September 2026 and the quoted words read in context. It states the reviewer's name and city but names no journal, volume or pages, and it is hosted on a partisan website; no peer-reviewed publication of this text was located. Treat it as an authoritative specialist's signed opinion, not as a peer-reviewed citation.

Provenance de la numérisation. Hosted on kristenfrihet.se, a personal website maintained by Carl Olof Jonsson, a former Jehovah's Witness and author of The Gentile Times Reconsidered.

Corroboré par. src-chr-e-ebl-vat4956-year-numbers

Notes. The review also reports that F. R. Stephenson and D. M. Willis, evaluating the lunar data in Under One Sky (Muenster, 2002), concluded that the date 568/7 BC can be 'confidently affirmed'.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-chr-e-hunger-review-furuli

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L’affirmation et ses preuves

electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment VAT.4956, “Astronomical diary for year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar II: catch-line and left edge”

Online review (no journal of publication stated), “Review of Rolf J. Furuli, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian Chronology, Volume II (Oslo: Awatu Publishers, 2nd ed., 2008)”