vom 29. October 1866. 647 



ez vous ilec venu Judas .... 

 Judas leur dist "se vous volez, 

 je 1 vous vendrei: si le prenez." 

 eil dient "oil, volentiers." 

 "donnez moi donc trente deniers." 

 l'uns en sa bourse pris les ha 

 et tantost Judas les donna. 

 ainsi eut son restorement 

 de sa perte de l'oignement 



Roman du S. Graal 217. 



y^ Hr. Weber legte die folgende Mittheilung von Hrn. 

 Hincks vor. 



On a newly discovered record of ancient lunar Eclipses. 



In the course of the past summer I have made, or at any 

 rate I believe that I have made , a discovery which is , in an 

 astronomical point of view, not only interesting but important. 

 I send the first notice of it to the Royal Academy of Sciences 

 at Berlin, to which I feel myself under very great obligations; 

 and one of the members of which, Professor Weber, I have to 

 thank for putting me on the track, which led to the discovery. 



On reeeiving the new volume of "The Cuneiform Inscrip- 

 tions of Western Asia" from the Trustees of the British Museum, 

 I paid particular attention to all that appeared to have an astro- 

 nomical character. Professor Weber had reemested me to look 

 for references to the nakshatras and to the Vedic System of astro- 

 nomy generally, which he believed to have been derived from 

 Babylon. It is hard to prove a negative, and it may turn out 

 hereafter that Professor Weber is right. I have, however, failed 

 to discover any traces of a System analogous to that of the 

 Vedas in the Babylonian inscriptions ; and I cannot help think- 

 ing that the Astronomies of the Vedas and of the cuneiform 

 inscriptions were essentially different. While I was searching, 

 however, for what I did not find, I found something for which 

 I was not searching, but which I believe to be of much greater 

 value. In plate 39, no. V is described in the index as "Part 

 of an astronomical Tablet". There is a great deal in this tablet 

 which , I candidly confess , I do not understand. There are, 



