In this context I note the possible reading of GU4-UD.MEŠ as šaḥāṭu “left-out, missing lines”, cited in CAD Š/I, p. 95.
2.
On the number 110 at the beginning of this eclipse report, see now SteeleJ. M., “A simple function for the length of the saros in Babylonian astronomy”, in SteeleJ. M. and ImhaesenA. (eds), Under one sky: Astronomy and mathematics in the ancient Near East (Münster, forthcoming).
3.
See SteeleJ. M., “Eclipse prediction in Mesopotamia”, Archive for history of exact science, liv (2000), 421–54, note 19.
4.
Brown does acknowledge this point on p. 221 but, whilst I accept his arguments against it, I would still urge a little more caution in describing the situation before c. 750 B.C.
