ina ZALAG2
ina namāri

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-10-30
Primary meaning last part of the night (in the second half of a month)
Literal translation at dawn
Variants
ina ZALAG2 ina namāri
Edited by
last part of the night (in the second half of a month) time interval

A time interval attested in horoscopes and astronomical diaries. Mostly followed by a lunar position. The counterpart is SAG GE6.

GE₆ 23 ina ZALAG₂ 30 ar₂ AN 1 KUŠ₃ ana NIM GUB

‘Night of the 23rd, last part of the night, the moon stood 1 cubit behind Mars to the east.’

— BM 32887 obv. 15'

Genre: astronomical diary
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 142 BCE (-141)

Sachs, A. J., Hunger, H. 1996. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. III. Diaries from 164 B.C. to 61 B.C. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

See also

〈SAG GE6〉 rēš mūši ‘beginning of the night (in the first half of a month)’

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). ina ZALAG2 (Lemma #1053). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1053/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). ina ZALAG2 (Lemma #1053). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1053/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). ina ZALAG2 (Lemma #1053). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1053/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) ina ZALAG2 (Lemma #1053), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1053/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1053,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ina {ZALAG2} ({Lemma} #1053)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1053/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1053/},
}