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

1.a previous month was hollow

The number 30 following the month name in horoscopes indicates that the previous month had 29 days, or was hollow.

[it]i.NE 30 GE6 4 SAG GE6 30 | SIG SA4 ša2 ABSIN 1 5/6 KUŠ3 30 1/2 KUŠ3 | ana NIM DIB U4.4.KAM LU2 a-lid

‘[Mon]th V 30, night of the 4th, beginning of night, the moon was | below the bright star of the Furrow (= a Virginis) by 1 5/6 cubits, the moon passed 1/2 cubit | to the east. On the 4th day the child was born.’

— BM 47642 (BH 13) 2-4

Genre: horoscope Provenance: Babylon Date: 3rd(-2nd?) century BCE (date of birth in horoscope: S.E. 88 V.4 = -223 July 29)

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88. 89

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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). (month x) 30 (Lemma #1044). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1044/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). (month x) 30 (Lemma #1044). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1044/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). (month x) 30 (Lemma #1044). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1044/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) (month x) 30 (Lemma #1044), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1044/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1044,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {(month x) 30 ({Lemma} #1044)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1044/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1044/},
}