ina NIM ŠU₂
ina ... rabû

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2025-02-03
Primary meaning Morning Last
Literal translation to set in the East
Variants
ina NIM ŠU₂ ina x rabû Akkadian reading of NIM uncertain (x=elê?)
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Morning Last synodic phenomenon

Said of Mercury and Venus (inner planets)

7 dil-bat ina NIM ina SAG LU ŠU₂

‘(Month XII2), (day) 7, Venus sets in the East in the beginning of Aries’

— BM 32333+32420 (ADRT I No. -375C) rev. 6

Genre: astronomical diary
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 376 BCE

Sachs, A. J., Hunger, H. 1988. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. I: Diaries from 652 B.C. to 262 B.C. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 99

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APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2025). ina NIM ŠU₂ (Lemma #237). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/237/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2025). ina NIM ŠU₂ (Lemma #237). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/237/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2025). ina NIM ŠU₂ (Lemma #237). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/237/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2025) ina NIM ŠU₂ (Lemma #237), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/237/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac237,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ina {NIM} Š{U}₂ ({Lemma} #237)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/237/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/237/},
}