kakkabu rabû

MUL-GAL
Akkadian · noun
variant MUL₂-GAL : kakkabu rabû
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2024-06-02
Meanings
Literal translation
large star
Categories
planet
celestial object
Related Lemmata 14 ›

1. Jupiter

1.a Jupiter planet

[… ana(?) ŠEG3 u IL]LU ME.A GAR-an | […] iti.GU₄ ša₂ MUL₂-GAL 1.12 24 12 MU.AN.NA.MEŠ | [ša2 d.Dil-bat] 16 8 MU.MEŠ ša₂ d.GU₄.UD 46 21 13 MU.MEŠ | [ša2 d.SAG.UŠ … ša2 d.Ṣal-bat-a-nu] 47 MU.MEŠ ša₂ d.UTU 36 54 MU.MEŠ ša₂ d.30 18 MU.MEŠ

‘[If] you (want to) cast a prediction [for…rain and] flood: | […] month II. For Jupiter 72, 24, 12 years, | [for Venus] 16, 8 years, for Mercury 46, 21, 13 years, | [for Saturn …, for Mars] 47 years, for the sun 36, 54 years, for the moon 18 years.’

— AO 6488 (TCL VI 20 = TU 20) rev. 1-4

Genre: astrological weather prediction Provenance: Uruk Date: 3rd cenury BCE

Hunger, H. 1976. Astrologische Wettervorhersagen. Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie 66 239

2. meteor

2.a meteor celestial object

MUL₂ GAL ša₂ ma-gal KUR u₃ meš-ḫi TUK-u₂

‘A meteor which was very bright and had a tail.’

— BM 36729 (ADRT I No. -343) rev. 10'

Genre: astronomical diary Provenance: Babylon Date: -343 (Artaxerxes III year 15)

Sachs, A. J., Hunger, H. 1988. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. I: Diaries from 652 B.C. to 262 B.C. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 154

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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL-GAL (Lemma #1034). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1034/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL-GAL (Lemma #1034). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1034/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL-GAL (Lemma #1034). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1034/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) MUL-GAL (Lemma #1034), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1034/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1034,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {MUL-{GAL} ({Lemma} #1034)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1034/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1034/},
}