EN.NUN.USAN
barārītu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-03-20
Primary meaning Evening watch
Literal translation Evening watch
Variants
EN.NUN.USAN barārītu
EN.NUN.USAN2 barārītu
EN.NUN.AN.USAN barārītu
EN.NUN.AN.USAN2 barārītu
USAN šimītān? in astronomical diaries, with reading šimītān?
USAN2 barārītu
Edited by
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: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac271,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	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/},
}