DU6
tašrītu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-10-28
Primary meaning Tašrītu (month VII)
Literal translation beginning
Variants
iti.DU₆.KU₆ tašrītu Month of the pure platform
iti.DU₆ tašrītu
DU₆ tašrītu
Edited by
Tašrītu (month VII) month, month name, lunar month

iti.DU₆ ni-i-ru d.en-lil₂ šu-ba-a-tu u₂-tal₂-la-la

‘Month VII , the yoke, Enlil, the pedestals are being purified.’

— KAV 218 a ii 30-31

Genre: astrolabe
Provenance: Nineveh
Date: Neo-Assyrian

Casaburi, M. C. 2003. Tre-stelle-per-ciascun (-mese): l'Astrolabio B: edizione filologica. Annali/Supplemento 38

beginning noun
(a festival) noun

Solis cotidiani cursus annuique reditus

‘the daily and the annual path of the Sun’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 1.0.5

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 1.

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). DU6 (Lemma #268). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/268/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A. (2024). DU6 (Lemma #268). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/268/
MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). DU6 (Lemma #268). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/268/
Harvard
Pilloni, A. (2024) DU6 (Lemma #268), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/268/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac268,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2024},
	title = {DU6 ({Lemma} #268)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/268/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/268/},
}