Sîn

30
Akkadian · noun
variants ᵈ30 : Sîn , ᵈEN.ZU : Sîn
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2024-06-27
Meanings
Literal translation
thirty
Categories
luminary
planet
deity
Related Lemmata 15 ›

1. Moon

1.a Moon luminary, planet

DIŠ d.30 AN.G[E6 GAR] KUR BI uš-tal2-pat

‘If the Moon [makes] an eclipse: this land will be overthrown.’

— BM 47494 rev. 30

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. Moon-god

2.a Moon-god deity
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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). 30 (Lemma #108). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/108/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). 30 (Lemma #108). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/108/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). 30 (Lemma #108). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/108/
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Schreiber, M. (2024) 30 (Lemma #108), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/108/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac108,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {30 ({Lemma} #108)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/108/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/108/},
}