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TABLE 2
FURULI’S “OSLO CHRONOLOGY”
Furuli’s Second Book 505
YEAR BCE
VISIBILITY DEVIATION POSITION OF SATURN
1 = 646 first +6 days text damaged
3 = 644 last +2 days wrong
5 = 642 last +1 days not given
6 = 641 last +5 days
6 = 641 first +5 days wrong
7 = 640 first +6 days wrong? (slightly damaged)
8 = 639 last +1 day
8 = 639 first +4 days wrong
10 = 637 last +4 days
10 = 637 first +7 days wrong
11 = 636 last +4 days
11 = 636 first +7 days wrong
12 = 635 first +4 days wrong
13 = 634 first +8 days wrong
14 = 633 last +6 days not given
Comments: 6 of the 15 deviations are outside the margin of uncertainty. The positions of
Saturn do not fit, either. Of the 8 years in which the recorded positions are legible, 7 are
clearly in conflict with the tablet, and the 8 th may be wrong, too. This is “year 7” in Furuli’s
chronology, and the recorded position is slightly damaged and may partly have been
misread.
In year 12 Saturn should have been “at the beginning of Pabilsag [= Sagittarius + part of
Ophiuchus]”. This fits year 636 BCE, but not 635 (Furuli’s date for year 12). As the study of
the astronomical tablets has shown, the western part of Pabilsag included θ Ophiuchus,
which was thus “at the beginning of Pabilsag”. (A summary of the examination of the
Babylonian constellations and the stars attached to them by the Babylonian astronomers is
included in a separate Appendix in Hermann Hunger & David Pingree, Astral Sciences in
Mesopotamia [Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill, 1999], pp. 271-277.)
In 635, however, Saturn had moved away from Ophiuchus altogether to about the middle
of Pabilsag. In year 13 Saturn should have been “in the middle of Pabilsag”. This fits year
635 BCE, but in 634 (Furuli’s date for year 13) Saturn had moved away also from the middle
of Pabilsag and was close to the eastern end of Pabilsag.
The conclusion is that Furuli’s attempt to move the reign of Kandalanu one year forward
cannot be upheld astronomically. His revised chronology is demonstrably wrong.
So what about Furuli’s attempt to identify Kandalanu with Nabopolassar?