MUL ša₂ maš-a-ti
kakkabu ša₂ māšāti

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-05-27
Primary meaning Star from the Doublets
Literal translation Star from the Doublets
Variants
MUL ša₂ maš-a-ti kakkabu ša₂ māšāti
MUL2 ša maš-ša2-a-tu2 kakkabu ša₂ māšāti
MUL2 UTU-a-ta kakkabu šamašāta
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Star from the Doublets star: ziqpu star

β Herculis

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 ša₂ maš-a-ti (Lemma #1410). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1410/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL ša₂ maš-a-ti (Lemma #1410). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1410/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL ša₂ maš-a-ti (Lemma #1410). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1410/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) MUL ša₂ maš-a-ti (Lemma #1410), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1410/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1410,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {MUL ša₂ maš-a-ti ({Lemma} #1410)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1410/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1410/},
}