simānu

SIG
Akkadian · noun
variants iti.SIG₄ : simānu , iti.SIG₄.GA : simānu , iti.SIG₄.A : simānu , si-man-nu : simānu , iti.SIG : simānu
Edited by: Alessia Pilloni , Mathieu Ossendrijver
Last edited: 2024-11-03
Meanings
Literal translation
Month of the brick
Categories
month
month name
time interval
Related Lemmata 4 ›

1. Simānu (month III)

1.a 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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac136,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	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/},
}