BAR
aḫû

Akkadian adjective

Last edited: 2024-12-03
Primary meaning invisible
Literal translation extraneous
Variants
BAR aḫû
Edited by
extraneous adjective

GE₆ 14 27 GE₆ GIN AN.MI sin BAR DIB

‘Night of the 14th, 7° after sunset, lunar eclipse, „extraneous“, will be omitted.’

— BM 32847 (= 77-2-22, 9) + 41842 (= 81-6-25, 462) obv. 1

Genre: normal-star almanac
Provenance: Babylon
Date: SE 55

Hunger, H. 2014. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. VII: Almanacs and Normal Star Almanacs. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 18-19

"F. Rochberg14 translates BAR = aḫû by „invisible“ because „this is the effective meaning“, quoting Steele approvingly. I agree with this argument but nevertheless use the literal translation „extraneous“ in this edition." (Hunger 2014: XV).
invisible term of visual perception

in eclipse statements

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). BAR (Lemma #1548). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1548/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A. (2024). BAR (Lemma #1548). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1548/
MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). BAR (Lemma #1548). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1548/
Harvard
Pilloni, A. (2024) BAR (Lemma #1548), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1548/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1548,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2024},
	title = {BAR ({Lemma} #1548)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1548/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1548/},
}