MURUB4 GE6
qabal mūši

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning middle watch of the night
Literal translation middle of the night
Variants
MURUB4 GE6 qabal mūši
Edited by
middle watch of the night time interval

AB 1 GE6 9 MURUB4 G[E6] |lu2.TUR a-l[id]

‘Month X 1, night of the 9th, middle of nig[ht,] | the child was bo[rn].’

— BM 34003 (LBAT 1470) (BH 23) 2-3

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 1st century BCE (date of birth in horoscope: S.E. 223 X.9 = -87 Jan.5)

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88. 127

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MURUB4 GE6 (Lemma #1038). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1038/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MURUB4 GE6 (Lemma #1038). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1038/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MURUB4 GE6 (Lemma #1038). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1038/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) MURUB4 GE6 (Lemma #1038), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1038/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1038,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {MURUB4 {GE6} ({Lemma} #1038)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1038/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1038/},
}