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La description que l’organisation donne de l’histoire éditoriale de la ligne 3 de VAT 4956 est exacte : la tablette porte 'the 9th', et Sachs et Hunger impriment cette lecture tout en la signalant, dans la traduction, comme une erreur pour le 8.

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La description que l’organisation donne de l’histoire éditoriale de la ligne 3 de VAT 4956 est exacte : la tablette porte 'the 9th', et Sachs et Hunger impriment cette lecture tout en la signalant, dans la traduction, comme une erreur pour le 8. Source: The Watchtower, 1 novembre 2011 Source: electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment VAT.4956, 1988

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The Watchtower, “When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?-Part Two, box 'What Does VAT 4956 Really Say?'”

1 novembre 2011 · pp.26-27 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“(5) In 1988, Sachs and Hunger published the text as it actually reads, with a “9.” (6) Yet, they preserve the alteration in their English translation, calling the “9th” an “error for: 8th.””

The organisation's account of the editorial history of line 3 of VAT 4956. Its description of what Sachs and Hunger printed is accurate; the disagreement is over whether the emendation is justified.

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Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Read in the Watchtower Online Library text on 19 September 2026. The box carries the marker “[Box/Pictures on pages 26, 27]” and is headed “WHAT DOES VAT 4956 REALLY SAY?” Items (5) and (6) are the last two of a numbered list of six and are quoted here with their numbers. The published edition reproduced by the electronic Babylonian Library does print the 9 with the note “(error for: 8th)”, so this description checks out.

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Notes. The credit line reads “bpk/Vorderasiatisches Museum, SMB/Olaf M. Teßmer” (often transliterated Tessmer).

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-chr-e-w11-1101-vat4956-box

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electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment VAT.4956, “Astronomical diary for year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar II, obverse line 3”

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)

“Night of the 9th (error for: 8th), beginning of the night, the moon stood 1 cubit in front of the hind leg of the Lion (= β Virginis).”

This is the line on which the Watch Tower's 2011 argument turns. The published edition prints the tablet's '9th' and marks it as a scribal error for the 8th; the editors do not silently alter the text.

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Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Read in the eBL API record downloaded on 19 September 2026. The transliteration shows the number as written and the English translation carries the editorial note “(error for: 8th)”, exactly as the Watchtower of 1 November 2011 describes. The star name is printed by the editors as “β Virginis” and is reproduced here unchanged.

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-line3

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The Watchtower, “When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?-Part Two, box 'What Does VAT 4956 Really Say?'”

electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), fragment VAT.4956, “Astronomical diary for year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar II, obverse line 3”