ŠU₂
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Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-10-10
Primary meaning time from last moonset before sunrise to sunrise
Literal translation ?
Variants
ŠU₂ ?
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time from last moonset before sunrise to sunrise astronomical quantity: lunar six interval

(36) 40 ša₂ ŠU₂ u NA ša₂ DU₆ GIŠ-ma TA NA ša₂ U₄ 1 (37) ša₂ BAR ša₂ 36 ZI-ma

‘(36) (0);40 of ŠU₂ and NA for month VII you compute and you subtract it from NA for day 1 for month I of 36 (years ago).’

— AO 6455 (TU 11) Section 14, obv. 36-37

Genre: astrology and goal-year astronomy: procedure text
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.

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APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). ŠU₂ (Lemma #291). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/291/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). ŠU₂ (Lemma #291). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/291/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). ŠU₂ (Lemma #291). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/291/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2023) ŠU₂ (Lemma #291), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/291/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac291,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
	year = {2023},
	title = {Š{U}₂ ({Lemma} #291)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/291/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/291/},
}