(month x) 30
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Akkadian none

Last edited: 2023-10-30
Primary meaning previous month was hollow
Literal translation (month x) (day) 30
Variants
(month x) 30 ?
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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

See also

〈GUR〉 turru ‘hollow month’

Cite this entry
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: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1044,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	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/},
}