ŠU
dûzu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning Dûzu (month IV)
Variants
du'uzu
dumuzi
iti.ŠU.NUMUN dûzu
iti.ŠU.NUMUN.NA dûzu Month of the early sowing
iti.ŠU dûzu
ŠU dûzu
Edited by
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

See also

〈—〉 tmws ‘Tammus (month IV)’

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: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac188,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2024},
	title = {Š{U} ({Lemma} #188)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/188/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/188/},
}