BIR
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Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-02-25
Primary meaning ?
Literal translation kidney
Variants
BIR Thus in Almanacs and Normal Star Almanacs
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BIR-(star) constellation

24 BIR ina KUR IGI

‘(Day) 24, BIR appears in the east.’

— MLC 1885 (ADRT VII No. 57) obv. 11'

Genre: astronomical diaries and related texts: normal star almanac
Provenance: Uruk
Date: ca. 180 BCE

Hunger, H. 2014. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. VII: Almanacs and Normal Star Almanacs. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 112-113


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2024). BIR (Lemma #1940). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1940/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2024). BIR (Lemma #1940). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1940/

MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2024). BIR (Lemma #1940). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1940/

Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2024) BIR (Lemma #1940), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1940/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1940,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
	year = {2024},
	title = {BIR ({Lemma} #1940)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1940/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1940/},
}