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naparšudu

Akkadian verb

Last edited: 2023-11-09
Primary meaning to escape
Literal translation to escape
Variants
i-par-šid ipparšid 3 sg. pret G
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to escape astronomical term

said of the Moon in relation to eclipse in one procedure text

(6) ḪAB-rat al MURUB₄ KASKAL.2 ⸢SIG?⸣ (7) ᵈsin i-par-šid-ma šal-šu₂ (8) ḪAB-rat sin al ⸢MURUB₄⸣

‘(6) The disk is 2 below the middle of the path, (7) the Moon escapes, and a third (8) of the disk the Moon [is above] the middle .’

— BM 35739 (BMAPT No. 99) side X ii' 6-8

Genre: mathematical astronomy: procedure text
Provenance: Babylon
Date: ca. 400-50 BCE

Ossendrijver, M. 2012. Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts. New York: Springer 513

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APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). - (Lemma #1509). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1509/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). - (Lemma #1509). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1509/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). - (Lemma #1509). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1509/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2023) - (Lemma #1509), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1509/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1509,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
	year = {2023},
	title = {- ({Lemma} #1509)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1509/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1509/},
}