MUL ša₂ tak-ša₂-a-ti
kakkabu ša takšâti

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-03
Primary meaning Star from the Triplets
Literal translation Star from the Triplets
Variants
MUL ša₂ tak-ša₂-a-ti kakkabu ša takšâti
MUL₂ tak-ša₂-a-tu₂ kakkabu takšâtu
MUL₂ tak-ša₂-a-tu4₂ kakkabu takšâtu
MUL ša₂ taš-ka-a-ti kakkabu ša taškâti
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Star from the Triplets star: ziqpu star

δ Herculis

1 5/6 MA.NA MIN 10 UŠ i-na KI.MIN 18 lim DANNA ina KI.MIN TA MUL ša₂ taš-ka-a-ti EN MUL DILI

‘1 5/6 minas ditto (weight), 10 UŠ on ditto (the ground), 18 thousand bēru in ditto (heaven), from the Star from the Triplets to the Single Star.’

— AO 6478 (TCL VI 21 = TU 21) obv. 13'-14'

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 tak-ša₂-a-ti (Lemma #1411). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1411/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL ša₂ tak-ša₂-a-ti (Lemma #1411). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1411/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL ša₂ tak-ša₂-a-ti (Lemma #1411). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1411/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) MUL ša₂ tak-ša₂-a-ti (Lemma #1411), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1411/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1411,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {MUL ša₂ tak-ša₂-a-ti ({Lemma} #1411)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1411/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1411/},
}