ki
kī

Akkadian conjunction

Last edited: 2024-06-03
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ki kī
ki-i kī
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when conjunction

28 AN.GE6 20 ina ABSIN | ki PAP NU IGI

‘28th (of month V), eclipse of the sun in Virgo, | when observed (it) was not seen.’

— BM 33018 (BH 21) rev. 4-5

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 2nd century BCE (date of birth in horoscope: S.E. 187 VI.22 = -124 Oct. 1)

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88. 117

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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). ki (Lemma #1264). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1264/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). ki (Lemma #1264). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1264/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). ki (Lemma #1264). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1264/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) ki (Lemma #1264), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1264/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1264,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ki ({Lemma} #1264)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1264/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1264/},
}