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(month x) 1
Akkadian · none
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2023-10-30
Meanings
Literal translation
(month x) (day) 1
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1. full

1.a full

The number 1 following the month name in horoscopes indicates that the previous month had 30 days, or was full.

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. (2023). (month x) 1 (Lemma #1043). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1043/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). (month x) 1 (Lemma #1043). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1043/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). (month x) 1 (Lemma #1043). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1043/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) (month x) 1 (Lemma #1043), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1043/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1043,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {(month x) 1 ({Lemma} #1043)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1043/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1043/},
}