〈ABSIN〉 šer'u ‘Virgo’
〈SA₄ ša₂ ABSIN〉 nebû ša šer'i ‘Spica (α Virginis)’
DILI ša₂ IGI ABSIN
ēdu ša maḫar šer'i
Akkadian noun
Last edited: 2025-08-28| Primary meaning | γ Virginis |
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| Literal translation | single one in front of the furrow |
| Variants | e-du ša₂ IGI ABSIN ēdu ša maḫar šer'i DILI ša₂ IGI ABSIN ēdu ša maḫar šer'i Mistakenly read as šur-ši ABSIN = "Root of Furrow" in Sachs JCS 4 (1952), and Roughton, Steele and Walker (2004), JCS: this star name is therefore a phantom. |
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γ Virginis star: normal star
Jones (2004) c19
GI₆ 11 sin TA DIRI ki E.A SIG DILI ša₂ IGI ABSIN 1 KUŠ₃ sin 1/2 KUŠ₃ ana NIM DIB
‘Night of (day) 11, when Sin emerged from a cloud, it was 1 cubit below the single (star) in front of the Furrow, passing 1/2 cubit to the east.’
šur-ši ABSIN 15
‘The root of the furrow: 15 (degrees of Virgo).’
APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2025). DILI ša₂ IGI ABSIN (Lemma #314). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/314/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2025). DILI ša₂ IGI ABSIN (Lemma #314). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/314/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2025). DILI ša₂ IGI ABSIN (Lemma #314). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/314/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2025) DILI ša₂ IGI ABSIN (Lemma #314), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/314/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac314,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
year = {2025},
title = {DILI ša₂ {IGI} {ABSIN} ({Lemma} #314)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/314/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/314/},
}