SIG
simānu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning Simānu (month III)
Literal translation Month of the brick
Variants
iti.SIG₄ simānu Month of the brick
iti.SIG₄.GA simānu Month of the brick
iti.SIG₄.A simānu Month of the brick
si-man-nu simānu
iti.SIG simānu
SIG simānu
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Simānu (month III) month, month name, time interval

iti.SIG₄ is le-e a-gi d.a-nim

‘Month III, the jaw of the Bull of Heaven, Anu's tiara’

— KAV 218 a i 32

Genre: astrolabe
Provenance: Nineveh
Date: Neo-Assyrian

Casaburi, M. C. 2003. Tre-stelle-per-ciascun (-mese): l'Astrolabio B: edizione filologica. Annali/Supplemento 33


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A., & Ossendrijver, M. (2024). SIG (Lemma #136). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/136/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A., & Ossendrijver, M. (2024). SIG (Lemma #136). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/136/

MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A., & Ossendrijver, M. (2024). SIG (Lemma #136). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/136/

Harvard
Pilloni, A. and Ossendrijver, M. (2024) SIG (Lemma #136), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/136/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac136,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia and Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
	year = {2024},
	title = {SIG ({Lemma} #136)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/136/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/136/},
}