BAR
mišlu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-24
Primary meaning half
Literal translation half
Variants
BAR mišlu
Edited by
half temporal expression

iti.ŠE GE6 1[4 AN.GE6 30] | ina RIN2 TIL-tim GAR-a[n] | U4.28 AN.[GE6 20] | ina ḪUN BAR DIB

‘Month XII, night of the 1[4th a lunar eclipse,] | in Libra totality occurr[ed]. | On the 28th day an ecl[ipse of the sun] | in Aries, one-half (month) having passed (since the previous lunar eclipse).’

— BM 36620 (BH 14) 3-6

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 3rd century BCE (date of birth in horoscope: 92 S.E. VII.12(?) = -219 Oct. 21)

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88. 93

midpoint (midday, midnight, midyear) temporal expression
middle spatial expression
half mathematical quantity
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). BAR (Lemma #1129). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1129/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). BAR (Lemma #1129). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1129/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). BAR (Lemma #1129). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1129/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) BAR (Lemma #1129), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1129/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1129,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {BAR ({Lemma} #1129)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1129/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1129/},
}