NE
abu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-11-12
Primary meaning Abu (month V)
Variants
iti.NE.IZI.GAR abu Month of the installation of braziers
iti.NE abu
NE abu
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Abu (month V) month, month name, time interval

iti.NE šu-ku-du d.nin-urta KI.NE.MEŠ ut-tap-pa-ḫa di-pa-ru a-na d.a-nun-na-ke₄ in-na-aš₂-ši

‘Month V, the arrow, Ninurta, the braziers are lightened, the torch is lifted to the Annunaki’

— KAV 218 a ii 8-10

Genre: astrolabe
Provenance: Nineveh
Date: Neo-Assyrian

Casaburi, M. C. 2003. Tre-stelle-per-ciascun (-mese): l'Astrolabio B: edizione filologica. Annali/Supplemento 36


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). NE (Lemma #189). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/189/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A. (2024). NE (Lemma #189). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/189/

MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). NE (Lemma #189). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/189/

Harvard
Pilloni, A. (2024) NE (Lemma #189), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/189/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac189,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2024},
	title = {NE ({Lemma} #189)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/189/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/189/},
}