kippatu

mul.GAM
Akkadian · noun
variants mul.GAM-ti : kippatu , mul.kip-pat : kippatu
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2024-05-27

Literal translation
circle
Categories
star
ziqpu star

1. Circle star

1.a Circle star star, ziqpu star

α Coronae Borealis

2 1/2 MA.NA MIN 1/2 DANNA i-na KI.MIN 27 lim DANNA ina [AN-e] | TA mul.GAM-ti EN MUL ša₂ maš-a-ti

‘2 1/2 minas ditto (weight), 1/2 bēru on ditto (the ground), 27 thousand bēru in [heaven], | from the Circle to the Star from the Doublets.’

— AO 6478 (TCL VI 21 = TU 21) obv. 9'-10'

Genre: star list Provenance: Uruk Date: ca. 200 BCE

Thureau-Dangin 1913, 'Distances entres étoiles fixes d'après une tablette de l'époque Séleucides', RA 10, 215-225 218


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.GAM (Lemma #1409). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1409/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.GAM (Lemma #1409). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1409/

MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.GAM (Lemma #1409). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1409/

Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) mul.GAM (Lemma #1409), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1409/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1409,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mul.{GAM} ({Lemma} #1409)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1409/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1409/},
}