barārītu

EN.NUN.USAN
Akkadian · noun
variants EN.NUN.USAN₂ : barārītu , EN.NUN.AN.USAN : barārītu , EN.NUN.AN.USAN₂ : barārītu , USAN : šimītān? , USAN₂ : barārītu
Edited by: Mathieu Ossendrijver , Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2024-03-20
Meanings
Literal translation
Evening watch
Categories
time interval
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. evening watch

1.a evening watch time interval

First of the three watches of the night.

mul2.UD.KA.DUḪ.A a-dir 30 ina EN.NUN.USAN AN.GE6 GAR-ma

‘The Panther is dark: the Moon makes an eclipse in the evening watch.’

— AO 6455 (TCL VI 11 = TU 11) obv. 1

Genre: collection of astrological and astronomical rules Provenance: Uruk Date: ca. 200 BCE

Brack-Bernsen, Lis, and Hunger, Hermann. 2002. TU 11. A Collection of Rules for the Prediction of Lunar Phases and of Month Lengths. SCIAMVS 3: 3–90. 7

GE6 9 USAN2 lu2.TUR GUD(?) x x

‘Night of the 9th, evening watch, the child ... .’

— BM 36796 (BH 15) 4

Genre: horoscope Provenance: Babylon Date: 2nd century BCE (Date of birth in horoscope: S.E. 109 XI.9 = -201 Feb.4)

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88, 1–164. 97

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2024). EN.NUN.USAN (Lemma #271). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/271/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2024). EN.NUN.USAN (Lemma #271). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/271/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2024). EN.NUN.USAN (Lemma #271). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/271/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. and Schreiber, M. (2024) EN.NUN.USAN (Lemma #271), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/271/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac271,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu and Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {EN.{NUN}.{USAN} ({Lemma} #271)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/271/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/271/},
}