ME ana ŠU2 šamaš2
ūmu ana rabî Šamaš

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-10-09
Primary meaning time until sunset
Literal translation day until sunset
Variants
ME ana ŠU2 šamaš2 ūmu ana rabî Šamaš
ŠU2 šamaš2 ?
ŠU2 ?
Edited by
time until sunset time interval

interval from a moment after noon and until sunset

U4 8 ša2 30 DANNA ME ana ŠU2 šamaš2 a-lid [...]

‘The 8th day, at one-half bēru before sunset, he was born [...].’

— BM 47721 (BH 6) rev. 3

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 3rd century BCE

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88, 1–164. 69

28 19 ŠU2 šamaš2

‘(day) 28, 19 (UŠ before) sunset’

— BM 45849+ (ACT No. 123a) obv. 15 col. M (= time of New Moon)

Genre: mathematical astronomy: synodic table
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 2nd century BCE

Neugebauer ACT

28 1.4 ŠU2

‘(day) 28, 1,4 (UŠ before) the setting (of the sun)’

— BM 34066+ (ACT No. 120) obv. 4 col. M (= time of New Moon)

Genre: mathematical astronomy: synodic table
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 2nd century BCE

Neugebauer, Otto, 1955, Astronomical Cuneiform Texts

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). ME ana ŠU2 šamaš2 (Lemma #1092). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1092/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). ME ana ŠU2 šamaš2 (Lemma #1092). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1092/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). ME ana ŠU2 šamaš2 (Lemma #1092). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1092/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. and Schreiber, M. (2023) ME ana ŠU2 šamaš2 (Lemma #1092), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1092/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1092,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu and Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ME ana Š{U2} šamaš2 ({Lemma} #1092)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1092/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1092/},
}