irat zuqaqīpi

mul.GABA GIR₂.TAB
Akkadian · noun
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2024-11-18
Meanings
Literal translation
breast of the scorpion
Categories
star
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. α Scorpii (Antares)

1.a α Scorpii (Antares) star

The star is also known as the Lisi-star.

DIŠ mul.GABA GIR2.TAB u mul.UZ3 KUR.MEŠ-ma mul.ŠU.GI u mul.SIPA.ZI.AN.NA ŠU2.MEŠ

‘¶ The Breast of the Scorpion and the Goat rise, and the Old Man and the True Shepherd of Anu set.’

— BM 86378 iii 26

Genre: schematic astronomy: mulapin Provenance: ? Date: ca. 626-539 BCE

Hunger, H. and Steele, J., 2019. The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN. London and New York: Routledge. 56

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.GABA GIR₂.TAB (Lemma #1570). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1570/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.GABA GIR₂.TAB (Lemma #1570). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1570/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.GABA GIR₂.TAB (Lemma #1570). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1570/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) mul.GABA GIR₂.TAB (Lemma #1570), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1570/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1570,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mul.{GABA} {GIR}₂.{TAB} ({Lemma} #1570)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1570/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1570/},
}