ṣallummû

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-08-08
Primary meaning comet
Variants
ṣal-lum-mu-u2 ṣallummû
d.ṣal-lum-mu-u2 ṣallummû
mul.ṣal-lum-mu-u2 ṣallummû
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comet celestial object

MUL4 u ṣal-lum-mu-[u2 ...]

‘A star or a come[t ...]’

— BM 36353+36647 rev. v 11'

Genre: astrology
Provenance: Babylon
Date: ca. 350-50 BCE

Schreiber, M. 2018. Astrologische Wettervorhersagen und Kometenbeobachtungen. In: Grenzüberschreitungen. Studien zur Kulturgeschichte des Alten Orients (Fs. H. Neumann), eds. Kristin Kleber, Georg Neumann, and Susanne Paulus. Zaphon: Münster: 739-756. 743

ina ZALAG₂ ina ᵈUTU.E₃.A ṣal-⸢lum⸣-[mu-u₂ ...]

‘Last part of the night, a com[et] in the east [...]’

— Rm 694+ (ADRT II No. -234A) rev. 3'

Genre: astronomical diary
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 235 BCE

Sachs, A. J., Hunger, H. 1989. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. II: Diaries from 261 B.C. to 165 B.C. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 96-97


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APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2024). ṣallummû (Lemma #276). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/276/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2024). ṣallummû (Lemma #276). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/276/

MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2024). ṣallummû (Lemma #276). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/276/

Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. and Schreiber, M. (2024) ṣallummû (Lemma #276), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/276/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac276,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu and Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ṣallummû ({Lemma} #276)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/276/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/276/},
}