dûzu

ŠU

Akkadian · noun

variants : du'uzu , : dumuzi , iti.ŠU.NUMUN : dûzu , iti.ŠU.NUMUN.NA : dûzu , iti.ŠU : dûzu

Edited by: Alessia Pilloni
Last edited: 2024-11-03

Meanings

1. Dûzu (month IV)

1.a Dûzu (month IV) month, time interval

iti.ŠU mul.SIPA.ZI.AN.NA d.NIN.ŠUBUR SUKKAL.MAḪ

‘Dûzu, constellation of the True Shepherd of Anu (Orion) Ninšubur, the great Visir’

— KAV 218 a i 38-39

Genre: astrolabe Provenance: Nineveh

Casaburi, M. C. 2003. Tre-stelle-per-ciascun (-mese): l'Astrolabio B: edizione filologica. Annali/Supplemento 33

¶ ina iti.ŠU BAR2 GAL UŠ₂-ma DUMU-šú AŠ.TE DAB ŠE.GIŠ.I₃ ⸢u?⸣ […]

‘If in Dûzu the harvest a great king will die and his son will take the throne, Sesame [...]’

— Sm.1281 + Rm-II.132 4'

Genre: celestial divination: enūma anu enlil Provenance: Nineveh

Gehlken, E. 2008. Die Adad-Tafeln der Omenserie Enuma Anu Enlil; T. 2: die ersten beiden Donnertafeln (EAE 42 und EAE 43). Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie, 1, 256-314. 266

Cite this entry

APA (7th)

Pilloni, A. (2024). ŠU (Lemma #188). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/188/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Pilloni, A. (2024). ŠU (Lemma #188). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/188/

MLA (9th)

Pilloni, A. (2024). ŠU (Lemma #188). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/188/

Harvard

Pilloni, A. (2024) ŠU (Lemma #188), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/188/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac188,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2024},
	title = {Š{U} ({Lemma} #188)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/188/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/188/},
}