TIL
qītu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-03
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TIL qītu
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Said of zodiac signs and constellations.

ina si-man-šu2 30 ina TIL MAŠ2 ina 18 | 20 ina TIL ḪUN ina 30

‘In his hour (of birth), the moon was at the end of Capricorn in 18°, | the sun at the end of Aries in 30°.’

— BM 38104 (BH 27) obv. 3-4

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). TIL (Lemma #1289). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1289/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). TIL (Lemma #1289). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1289/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). TIL (Lemma #1289). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1289/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) TIL (Lemma #1289), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1289/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1289,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {TIL ({Lemma} #1289)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1289/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1289/},
}