MUL ne₂-bu-u₂ ša₂ mul.ŠU.GI
kakkabu nebû ša šību

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-12-16
Primary meaning Bright Star of the Old Man star
Literal translation Bright Star of the Old Man star
Variants
MUL ne₂-bu-u₂ ša₂ mul.ŠU.GI kakkabu nebû ša šību
Edited by
Bright Star of the Old Man star star

α or η Persei

[...] 1/2 DANNA i-na KI.MIN 27 lim DANNA ina [...] | TA MUL um-mu-lu-ti EN MUL ne₂-bi-i ša₂ ⸢mul⸣.ŠU.GI

‘[...] 1/2 bēru on ditto (the ground), 27 thousand bēru in [...], | from the Dusky Stars to the Bright Star of the Old Man.’

— AO 6478 (TCL VI 21 = TU 21) obv. 29'-30'

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 ne₂-bu-u₂ ša₂ mul.ŠU.GI (Lemma #1427). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1427/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL ne₂-bu-u₂ ša₂ mul.ŠU.GI (Lemma #1427). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1427/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL ne₂-bu-u₂ ša₂ mul.ŠU.GI (Lemma #1427). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1427/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) MUL ne₂-bu-u₂ ša₂ mul.ŠU.GI (Lemma #1427), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1427/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1427,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {MUL ne₂-bu-u₂ ša₂ mul.Š{U}.{GI} ({Lemma} #1427)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1427/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1427/},
}