šaplat

SIG
Akkadian · preposition
variant šap-lat : šapal
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2026-10-06
Meanings
Literal translation
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Categories
relative position
spatial
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. below

1.a below relative position, spatial

preposition not mentioned in CAD

[MU].1.28.KAM I.Se-lu-ku LUGAL | [it]i.NE 30 GE6 4 SAG GE6 30 | SIG SA4 ša2 ABSIN 1 5/6 KUŠ3 30 1/2 KUŠ3 | ana NIM DIB

‘Year 88, Seleucus was king. |[Mon]th V, 30, night of the 4th, beginning of night, the moon was | below the bright star of the Furrow (= α Virginis) by 1 5/6 cubits, the moon passed 1/2 cubit | to the east.’

— BM 47642 (BH 13) obv. 1-4

Genre: horoscope Provenance: Babylon Date: 3rd(-2nd?) century BCE (date of birth in horoscope: S.E. 88 V.4 = -223 July 29)

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88. 89

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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2026). SIG (Lemma #1293). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1293/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2026). SIG (Lemma #1293). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1293/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2026). SIG (Lemma #1293). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1293/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2026) SIG (Lemma #1293), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1293/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1293,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2026},
	title = {SIG ({Lemma} #1293)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1293/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1293/},
}