tašrītu

DU₆
Akkadian · noun
variants iti.DU₆.KU₆ : tašrītu , iti.DU₆ : tašrītu
Edited by: Alessia Pilloni
Last edited: 2024-10-28
Meanings
Literal translation
beginning
Categories
month
month name
lunar month
Related Lemmata 1 ›

1. Tašrītu (month VII)

1.a 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

2. beginning

2.a beginning

3. (a festival)

3.a (a festival)

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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac268,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2024},
	title = {DU₆ ({Lemma} #268)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/268/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/268/},
}