mul.GAŠAN-TIN
Bēlet-balāṭi

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-03
Primary meaning Lady-of-Life star
Literal translation Lady-of-Life star
Variants
mul.GAŠAN-TIN Bēlet-balāṭi
Edited by
Lady-of-Life star star: ziqpu star

α Lyrae

3 1/3 MA.NA MIN 2/3 DANNA i-na KI.MIN 36 lim DANNA ina KI.MIN | TA mul.GAŠAN-TIN EN qu₂-ma-ri ša₂ mul.UD.⸢KA⸣.DUḪ.A

‘3 1/3 minas ditto (weight), 2/3 bēru on ditto (the ground), 36 thousand bēru in ditto (heaven), | from the Lady of Life to the Shoulder of the Demon-with-the-gaping-mouth.’

— AO 6478 (TCL VI 21 = TU 21) obv. 17'-18'

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.GAŠAN-TIN (Lemma #1418). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1418/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.GAŠAN-TIN (Lemma #1418). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1418/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.GAŠAN-TIN (Lemma #1418). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1418/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) mul.GAŠAN-TIN (Lemma #1418), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1418/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1418,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mul.{GA}Š{AN}-{TIN} ({Lemma} #1418)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1418/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1418/},
}