ad2
adriš

Akkadian adverb

Last edited: 2024-06-24
Primary meaning dimly
Literal translation dimly
Variants
ad2 adriš
ad-riš adriš
Edited by
dimly, faintly visible, darkly luminary or planetary quality

iti.KIN 13 KI ŠU2 20 | AN.GE6 30 al šal ḪAB-rat | DIRI GAR-an ad2 E3-a | ina ZIB.ME

‘Month VI, the 13th, with the setting of the sun | a lunar eclipse, exceeding 1/3 of the disk, | occured; (the moon) was darkly when it rose | in Pisces.’

— BM 38104 (BH 27) 5-8

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 1st century BCE (date of birth in horoscope: 243 S.E. I.20 = -68 Apr.16)

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88. 137

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). ad2 (Lemma #1127). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1127/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). ad2 (Lemma #1127). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1127/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). ad2 (Lemma #1127). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1127/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) ad2 (Lemma #1127), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1127/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1127,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ad2 ({Lemma} #1127)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1127/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1127/},
}