mūšu ana namāri

GE₆ ana ZALAG₂
Akkadian · noun
variant ana ZALAG₂ : ?
Edited by: Mathieu Ossendrijver , Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2023-10-31
Meanings
Literal translation
night until dawn
Categories
time interval
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1. time until sunrise

1.a time until sunrise time interval

Interval that starts between midnight and sunrise and ends at sunrise. It is a rare synonym of napāḫ Šamaš.

MU.1.ME.1,34.KAM | ZIZ2 GE6 10 30 DANNA | GE6 ana ZALAG2 lu2.TUR a-lid

‘Year 194 (S.E.), | month XI, night of the 10th, 30 (UŠ, i.e.) one bēru | remaining until sunrise, the child was born.’

— BM 34567 (BH 32) 4-6

Genre: horoscope Provenance: Babylon Date: 2nd century

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88. 147

GAN 25 45 ZALAG2

‘Month IX, (day) 25, 45 (UŠ until) sunrise’

— BM 36731 obv. ii' 6'

Genre: mathematical astronomy: table of solstices, equinoxes, sirius phenomena Provenance: Babylon Date: ca. 450-50 BCE

Neugebauer, O., Sachs, A. 1967, Atypical Astronomical Cuneiform Texts I, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 21, 183-218

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). GE₆ ana ZALAG₂ (Lemma #1091). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1091/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). GE₆ ana ZALAG₂ (Lemma #1091). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1091/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). GE₆ ana ZALAG₂ (Lemma #1091). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1091/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. and Schreiber, M. (2023) GE₆ ana ZALAG₂ (Lemma #1091), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1091/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1091,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu and Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {GE₆ ana {ZALAG}₂ ({Lemma} #1091)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1091/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1091/},
}