Šamaš

ᵈUTU
Akkadian · noun
variants ᵈ20 : Šamaš , 20 : Šamaš
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2024-05-27
Meanings
Categories
luminary
planet
deity
Related Lemmata 9 ›

1. Sun

1.a 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

2. Sun-god

2.a Sun-god deity
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). dUTU (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). dUTU (Lemma #107). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/107/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). dUTU (Lemma #107). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/107/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) dUTU (Lemma #107), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/107/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac107,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ᵈ{UTU} ({Lemma} #107)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/107/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/107/},
}