30
Sîn

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-27
Primary meaning Moon
Literal translation thirty
Variants
30 Sîn
d.30 Sîn
d.EN.ZU Sîn
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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

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/
Harvard
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: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac108,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {30 ({Lemma} #108)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/108/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/108/},
}