4 kakkabū ša irat nēši

mul.4 ša₂ GABA mul.UR.A
Akkadian · noun
variant mul.4 ša₂ GABA-šu₂ : 4 kakkabū ša irtišu
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2024-10-27
Meanings
Literal translation
4 stars of the breast of the lion
Categories
star
ziqpu star
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. 4 stars of the breast of the Lion star

1.a 4 stars of the breast of the Lion star star, ziqpu star

α, γ, ζ, η Leonis

1 2/3 MA.NA MIN 10 UŠ i-na KI.MIN 18 lim DANNA ina KI.MIN | TA 2 MUL.MEŠ ša₂ SAG.DU mul.UR.GU.LA EN MUL 4 ša₂ GABA-šu₂

‘1 2/3 minas ditto (weight), 10 UŠ on ditto (the ground), 18 thousand bēru in ditto (heaven), | from the 2 stars of the head of the Lion to the 4 stars of its (the Lion's) breast.’

— AO 6478 (TCL VI 21 = TU 21) rev. 13-14

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.4 ša₂ GABA mul.UR.A (Lemma #1519). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1519/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.4 ša₂ GABA mul.UR.A (Lemma #1519). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1519/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.4 ša₂ GABA mul.UR.A (Lemma #1519). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1519/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) mul.4 ša₂ GABA mul.UR.A (Lemma #1519), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1519/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1519,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mul.4 ša₂ {GABA} mul.{UR}.{A} ({Lemma} #1519)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1519/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1519/},
}