napāṣu

DUB₂
Akkadian · verb
Edited by: Mathieu Ossendrijver , Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2024-02-25
Meanings
Literal translation
to kick
Categories
position
Related Lemmata 1 ›

1. to break

1.a to break position

The astronomical meaning has not been established. As pointed out by Jeanette Fincke, the interpretation “to tighten, to tauten” adopted, for instance, in H. Hunger and D. Pingree, Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia (Leiden: Brill, 1999), pp. 100–111, is problematic and not supported by evidence.

mul2.RIN2 | mi-ḫir ša2 mul2.LU GU SI.SA2 DUB2-šu2 GUB-ma

‘(Jupiter and Saturn) stand in Libra, the opposite of Aries, a broken (?) straight string.’

— AO 6455 (TCL VI 11 = TU 11) obv. 17-18

Genre: collection of astrological and astronomical rules Provenance: Uruk Date: ca. 200 BCE

Brack-Bernsen, Lis, and Hunger, Hermann. 2002. TU 11. A Collection of Rules for the Prediction of Lunar Phases and of Month Lengths. SCIAMVS 3: 3–90. 8

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APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2024). DUB₂ (Lemma #1266). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1266/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2024). DUB₂ (Lemma #1266). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1266/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2024). DUB₂ (Lemma #1266). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1266/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. and Schreiber, M. (2024) DUB₂ (Lemma #1266), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1266/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1266,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu and Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {DUB₂ ({Lemma} #1266)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1266/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1266/},
}