Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0607520

From: Gerry Gilmore [view email]

Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:02:11 GMT (68kb)

A fixed point in Coptic Chronology: the solar eclipse of 10 March, 601

Authors: John Ray, Gerry Gilmore

Comments: 5pp, no figures, accepted for publication in Zeitschrift fuer Papyrologie und Epigraphik

We reconsider the description of a solar eclipse in the Coptic ostracon in the Egyptian museum, Turin, confirming its identification with the solar eclipse of 10 march 601. This provides one of very few fixed dates in Coptic chronology. We comment on the rarity of such descriptions.

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607520