It is believed that this astronomical record was first compiled during the reign of King Ammisaduqa (or Ammizaduga), the fourth ruler after Hammurabi.

The earliest copy of this tablet to be published, a 7th-century BC cuneiform, part of the British Museum collections, was recovered from the library at Nineveh.

It was first published in 1870 by Henry Creswicke Rawlinson and George Smith as Enuma Anu Enlil Tablet 63, in "Tablet of Movements of the Planet Venus and their Influences" (The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, volume III).

It was copied from a tablet written at Babylon while Sargon II was King of Assyria between 720 and 704 BC.

[6] Many uncertainties remain about the interpretation of the record of astronomical positions of Venus, as preserved in these surviving tablets.