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SAG GE₆
Akkadian · noun
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2023-10-30
Meanings
Literal translation
beginning of the night
Categories
time interval
Related Lemmata 1 ›

1. beginning of the night (in the first half of a month)

1.a 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

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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1052,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {SAG {GE}₆ ({Lemma} #1052)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1052/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1052/},
}