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First published in 1870 by Henry Creswicke Rawlinson and George Smith as tablet 63, in "Tablet of Movements of the Planet Venus and their Influences" (''The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia'', volume III). The tablet's significance for corroborating Babylonia n chronology was first recognised by Franz Xaver Kugler in 1912 , when he could identify the enigmatic "Year of the Golden Throne" ("Venus" tablet K.160) with the 8th year of the reign of Ammisaduqa. Since then, this 7th-century BCE copy has been interpreted to support Several Chronologies in the 2nd Millennium BC . The tablets had been copied and recopied over many centuries. Immanuel Velikovsky interpreted the few scribal errors that crept in as evidence for a peturbation of Venus' Orbit when writing Worlds In Collision , avoiding the rest of the text that shows a high degree of regularity. EXTERNAL LINKS SEE ALSO |
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