U4.SAKAR
uskaru

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-05-27
Primary meaning lunar crescent
Literal translation growing light
Variants
U4.SAKAR uskaru
as-ka-ru askaru
Edited by
crescent luminary, planet

DIŠ 30 ina IGI.LA2-šu2 TA U4-1-KAM EN U4-5-KAM | 5 u4-mi U4.SAKAR d.A-ni7 | TA U4-6-KAM EN U4-10-KAM | 5 u4-mi ka-li-tu2 d.E2-a | TA U4-11-KAM EN U4-15-KAM 5 u4-mi AGA taš-ri-iḫ-ti | [ip-pir]-ma d.En-lil2

‘The moon at its appearance from the frist day tot he fifth day, | five days, is a crescent, it is Anu; | from the sixth day tot he tenth day, | five days, is a kidney, it is Ea; | from the eleventh day tot he fifteenth day, five days, the crown of splendour | it wears, it is Enlil.’

— K 250+ (CT 26 40-41) vi 16-21

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

Koch-Westenholz, U., 1995. Mesopotamian Astrology. An Introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestial Divination. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. 202

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). U4.SAKAR (Lemma #186). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/186/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). U4.SAKAR (Lemma #186). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/186/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). U4.SAKAR (Lemma #186). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/186/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) U4.SAKAR (Lemma #186), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/186/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac186,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {U4.{SAKAR} ({Lemma} #186)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/186/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/186/},
}