ina KUR ŠU₂
ina ... rabû

Akkadian verb

Last edited: 2025-02-03
Primary meaning to set at the morning last
Literal translation to set in the east
Variants
ina KUR ŠU₂ ina ... rabû
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to set at the morning last synodic phenomenon

Said of Mercury and Venus (inner planets)

⸢16 ŠU⸣ 12 ina KUR 19.26.40 ALLA ŠU₂

‘(Year) ⸢16 , (month) IV⸣, (day) 12, in the east, 19;26,40 Cancer, it sets.’

— BM 36723 (ACT No. 300a) rev. 9

Genre: mathematical astronomy: synodic table
Provenance: Babylon
Date: Ca. 320 BCE

Neugebauer, Otto, 1955, Astronomical Cuneiform Texts

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2025). ina KUR ŠU₂ (Lemma #1760). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1760/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2025). ina KUR ŠU₂ (Lemma #1760). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1760/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2025). ina KUR ŠU₂ (Lemma #1760). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1760/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2025) ina KUR ŠU₂ (Lemma #1760), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1760/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1760,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ina {KUR} Š{U}₂ ({Lemma} #1760)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1760/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1760/},
}