mul.a-si-du
asīdu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-02
Primary meaning Heel star
Literal translation Heel star
Variants
mul.a-si-du asīdu
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Heel star star: ziqpu star, astronomical phenomenon

λ Andromedae. Part of the constellation "Demon with the Gaping Mouth".

[...] ⸢MA⸣.NA MIN 10 UŠ i-na KI.MIN 18 lim DANNA ina KI.MIN | TA mul.a-si-di EN 4 ša₂ mul.LU.[LIM]

‘[...] minas ditto (weight), 10 UŠ on ditto (the ground), 18 thousand bēru in ditto (heaven), | from the Heel to the 4 (stars) of the Stag.’

— AO 6478 (TCL VI 21 = TU 21) obv. 25'-26'

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.a-si-du (Lemma #1424). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1424/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.a-si-du (Lemma #1424). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1424/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.a-si-du (Lemma #1424). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1424/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) mul.a-si-du (Lemma #1424), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1424/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1424,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mul.a-si-du ({Lemma} #1424)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1424/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1424/},
}