MUL
kakkabu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-09-23
Primary meaning star
Literal translation star
Variants
MUL kakkabu
MUL2 kakkabu
MUL4 kakkabu MUL4 is also transliterated as UL.
MULx kakkabu MULx is also transliterated as AB2.
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star astronomical term, celestial object

DIŠ 1 MUL MU2-uḫ : U4 1-KAM ina ŠA3 <<ina ŠA3>> d.UDU.IDIM.MEŠ IGI-ma : ša2-niš MUL2 <ana> ŠA3-šu2 | KU4-ma

‘¶ "If one star rises" (means): on the 1st day among «among» the planets it appears; alternatively (it means): a star enters inside it.’

— AO 6464 (TCL VI 17 = TU 17) rev. 18-19

Genre: commentary
Provenance: Uruk
Date: late 4th century BCE

Hunger, H. 1995. Ein Kommentar zu Mond-Omina. In: Vom Alten Orient zum Alten Testament, Festschrift für Wolfram Freiherrn von Soden zum 85. Geburtstag am 19. Juni 1993, eds.W. Dietrich and O. Loretz. Butzon & Kevelaer: 105-118.

constellation astronomical term, celestial object
zodiac sign astronomical term, astrological concept, spatial concept
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL (Lemma #1550). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1550/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL (Lemma #1550). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1550/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). MUL (Lemma #1550). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1550/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) MUL (Lemma #1550), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1550/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1550,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {MUL ({Lemma} #1550)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1550/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1550/},
}