UDU.IDIM
bibbu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-03-22
Primary meaning planet
Literal translation wild sheep
Variants
d.UDU.IDIM bibbu
mul.UDU.IDIM bibbu
Edited by
planet planet, astronomical phenomenon

d.30! u d.UTU d.Šul-pa-e3 mul.Dil-bat | mul.UDU.IDIM mul.SAG.UŠ d.UDU.IDIM.GU4.U[D] | mul4.Ṣal-bat-a-nu 7 mul.UDU.IDIM.ME[Š]

‘The Moon and the Sun, Jupiter, Venus, | the planet Saturn (and) Mercury, | Mars. Seven planets.’

— K 2067 (CT 26 45) 19-21

Genre: star list
Provenance: Nineveh
Date: 7th century BCE

Koch-Westenholz, U., 1995. Mesopotamian Astrology. An Introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestial Divination. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. 200

wild sheep animal
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). UDU.IDIM (Lemma #185). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/185/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). UDU.IDIM (Lemma #185). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/185/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). UDU.IDIM (Lemma #185). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/185/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) UDU.IDIM (Lemma #185), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/185/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac185,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {UDU.{IDIM} ({Lemma} #185)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/185/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/185/},
}