d.UTU
Šamaš

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-05-27
Primary meaning Sun
Variants
d.UTU Šamaš
d.20 Šamaš
20 Šamaš
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Sun luminary, planet

DIŠ dUTU AN.GE6 GAR ERIN2.MEŠ LUGAL UG7.MEŠ

‘If the Sun makes an eclipse: the troops of the king will die.’

— BM 47494 rev. 29

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Babylon?
Date: 464-337 BCE

Hunger, H. 2004. Stars, Cities, and Predictions. Pp. 16–32 in Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree, eds. Charles Burnett, Jan Hogendijk, Kim Plofker and Michio Yano. Leiden: Brill. 20


Sun-god deity

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). d.UTU (Lemma #107). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/107/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). d.UTU (Lemma #107). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/107/

MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). d.UTU (Lemma #107). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/107/

Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) d.UTU (Lemma #107), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/107/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac107,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {d.{UTU} ({Lemma} #107)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/107/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/107/},
}