MUL DILI
kakkabu ēdu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-02
Primary meaning Single Star
Literal translation Single Star
Variants
MUL DILI kakkabu ēdu
Edited by
Single Star star: ziqpu star

μ or ϑ 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 DILI (Lemma #1414). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1414/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL DILI (Lemma #1414). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1414/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL DILI (Lemma #1414). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1414/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) MUL DILI (Lemma #1414), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1414/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1414,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {MUL {DILI} ({Lemma} #1414)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1414/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1414/},
}