mi-šil GE6
mišil mūši

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-09-18
Primary meaning middle watch of the night
Literal translation middle of the night
Variants
mi-šil GE6 mišil mūši
Edited by
middle watch of the night

iti.GAN 1 | [UD.27(?) m]i-šil GE6 lu2.TUR | [a-lid]

‘Month IX 1, | [on the 27th(?) day], middle of night, the child | [was born].’

— BM 77265 (BH 24) 2-4

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 1st century BCE (date of birth in horoscope: SE 229 IX.27(?) = -82 Dec.20)

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88. 129

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mi-šil GE6 (Lemma #1041). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1041/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mi-šil GE6 (Lemma #1041). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1041/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mi-šil GE6 (Lemma #1041). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1041/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) mi-šil GE6 (Lemma #1041), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1041/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1041,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {mi-šil {GE6} ({Lemma} #1041)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1041/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1041/},
}