sarru

mul.LUL.LA
Akkadian · noun
variants sar-ru : sarru , ᵈṣar-ru : sarru , LUL.LA : ṣarru , mul.ṣar-ru : ṣarru , MUL₄ sar-ru : kakkabu sarru
Edited by: Alessia Pilloni
Last edited: 2025-03-04
Meanings
Literal translation
false
Categories
planet
luminary
constellation
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1. Mars

1.a Mars planet, luminary

MUL₄ sar-ru [...] : MUL₄ ṣal-bat-a-nu 7 MU-šú

‘The false star [...] : Mars its 7 names’

— K 2067 (CT 26 45)

Genre: star list Provenance: Nineveh Date: 7th century BCE

Reiner, E., Civil, M. 1974. The Series HAR-ra = hubullu: Tablets XX-XXIV (Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon XI). Pontificium Institutum Biblicum: Rome. 17

2. Crab

2.a Crab constellation

In commentary from Nineveh

LUL.LA : AL.LUL

‘The false star is the Crab.’

— K 4293 III, 7-7c

Genre: celestial divination: enūma anu enlil Provenance: Nineveh

Reiner, E., Pingree, D. 1998. Babylonian Planetary Omens: Part Three. 110-111

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APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2025). mul.LUL.LA (Lemma #2913). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2913/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A. (2025). mul.LUL.LA (Lemma #2913). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2913/
MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A. (2025). mul.LUL.LA (Lemma #2913). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2913/
Harvard
Pilloni, A. (2025) mul.LUL.LA (Lemma #2913), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2913/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2913,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2025},
	title = {mul.{LUL}.{LA} ({Lemma} #2913)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2913/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2913/},
}