EN.NUN.U4.ZAL.LA
šāt urri

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-07-03
Primary meaning Morning watch
Literal translation Morning watch
Variants
EN.NUN.U4.ZAL.LA šāt urri
EN.NUN.U4.ZAL.LE šāt urri
ZALAG₂ ? in astronomical diaries
U4.ZAL šāt urri in astronomical diaries
U4.ZAL.LA šāt urri in astronomical diaries
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Morning watch time interval

Third of the three watches of the night.

mul2.GU.LA a-dir 30 ina EN.NUN.U4.ZAL.LA AN.GE6 GAR-ma

‘The Great One is dark: the Moon makes an eclipse in the morning watch.’

— AO 6455 (TCL VI 11 = TU 11) obv. 2

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 20 ina ZALAG₂ sin ina IGI MAŠ.MAŠ IGI 2 KUŠ₃ sin 5 1/2 KUŠ₃ ana ULU₃ SIG

‘Night of (day) 20, last part of the night, Sin was 2 cubits in front of the front twin, Sin being 5 1/2 cubits low to the south.’

— BM 32839+ (ADRT III No. -141F) obv. 5'

Genre: astronomical diary
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 142 BCE

Sachs, A. J., Hunger, H. 1996. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. III. Diaries from 164 B.C. to 61 B.C. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 124-125


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APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). EN.NUN.U4.ZAL.LA (Lemma #273). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/273/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). EN.NUN.U4.ZAL.LA (Lemma #273). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/273/

MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). EN.NUN.U4.ZAL.LA (Lemma #273). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/273/

Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. and Schreiber, M. (2023) EN.NUN.U4.ZAL.LA (Lemma #273), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/273/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac273,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu and Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {EN.{NUN}.{U4}.{ZAL}.{LA} ({Lemma} #273)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/273/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/273/},
}