mul.KIŠIB-GAM₃
rittu gamlu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-05-27
Primary meaning Crook's Handle star
Literal translation Crook's Handle star
Variants
mul.KIŠIB-GAM₃ rittu gamlu
mul.rit-tu2 gam-lu rittu gamlu
Edited by
Crook's Handle star star: ziqpu star

θ and υ Aurigae. Part of the constellation "Crook".

[...] 10 UŠ i-na KI.MIN 18 lim DANNA ina KI.MIN | TA mul.GAM₃ EN mul.KIŠIB-GAM₃

‘[...] 10 UŠ on ditto (the ground), 54 thousand bēru in ditto (heaven), | from the Crook to the Crook's Handle.’

— AO 6478 (TCL VI 21 = TU 21) rev. 3-4

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, 215-225 219

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.KIŠIB-GAM₃ (Lemma #1439). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1439/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.KIŠIB-GAM₃ (Lemma #1439). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1439/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.KIŠIB-GAM₃ (Lemma #1439). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1439/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) mul.KIŠIB-GAM₃ (Lemma #1439), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1439/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1439,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mul.{KI}Š{IB}-{GAM}₃ ({Lemma} #1439)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1439/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1439/},
}