EN.NUN.MURUB4.BA
qablītu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-09-13
Primary meaning Middle watch of the night
Literal translation Middle watch of the night
Variants
EN.NUN.MURUB4.BA qablītu
EN.NUN.MURUB4 qablītu
EN.NU.UN.MURUB4.BA qablītu
MURUB4 qablītu in astronomical diaries
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Middle watch of the night time interval

Second of the three watches of the night.

mul2.SIM.MAḪ a-dir 30 ina EN.NUN.MURUB4.BA AN.GE6 GAR-ma

‘The Swallow is dark: the Moon makes an eclipse in the middle 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 12 MURUB₄ sin TUR₃ NIGIN₂ AN ⸢ina⸣ ŠA₃ GUB

‘Night of (day) 12, middle part of the night, Sin was surrounded by a halo, Mars stood in it.’

— BM 35195 (ADRT I No. -378) obv. 5'

Genre: astronomical diary
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 379 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. 90-91

MU.1.ME.58.KAM | iti.GAN GE6 27 ina MURUB4-ti3 | lu2.TUR a-lid

‘Year 158 (S.E.), | month IX, night of the 27th, in the middle watch, | the child was born.’

— BM 34567 (BH 32) rev. 1-3

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 2nd century

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88. 147

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). EN.NUN.MURUB4.BA (Lemma #272). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/272/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). EN.NUN.MURUB4.BA (Lemma #272). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/272/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). EN.NUN.MURUB4.BA (Lemma #272). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/272/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. and Schreiber, M. (2023) EN.NUN.MURUB4.BA (Lemma #272), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/272/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac272,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu and Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {EN.{NUN}.{MURUB4}.{BA} ({Lemma} #272)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/272/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/272/},
}