SAG GE6
rēš mūši

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-10-30
Primary meaning beginning of the night (in the first half of a month)
Literal translation beginning of the night
Variants
SAG GE6 rēš mūši
Edited by
beginning of the night (in the first half of a month) time interval

A time interval attested in horoscopes and astronomical diaries. Always followed by a lunar position. The counterpart is ina ZALAG2.

iti.ŠE 30 GE6 6 SAG GE6 30 | ina IGI ŠUR GIGIR ša2 SI 1 KUŠ3 | 6 ina ZALAG2 lu2.TUR a-lid

‘Month XII 30, night of the 6th, beginning of night, the moon | was 1 cubit west of the northern ... of the Chariot (β Tauri), | On the 6th in the last part of night, the child was born.’

— BM 35516 (Rochberg Horoscopes No. 18) 2-4

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 142 BCE

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88, 1–164. 109

See also

〈ina ZALAG2〉 ina namāri ‘last part of the night (in the second half of a month)’

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). SAG GE6 (Lemma #1052). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1052/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). SAG GE6 (Lemma #1052). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1052/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). SAG GE6 (Lemma #1052). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1052/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) SAG GE6 (Lemma #1052), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1052/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1052,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {SAG {GE6} ({Lemma} #1052)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1052/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1052/},
}