mul.KA5.A
šēlebu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-02
Primary meaning Fox-star
Literal translation Fox-star
Variants
mul.KA5.A šēlebu
mul2.KA5.A šēlebu
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Fox-star constellation, constellation: 3 x 12 constellations

approx. corresponding to 80-86 Ursae Maioris ?

[iti.B]ARA2 3.20 mul2.IKU 1.30 mul2.KA5.A 45 mul2.d.AMAR.UTU

‘[Mo]nth I: 3,20 'The Field', 1,30 'The Fox', 45 Marduk.’

— BM 34713 (LBAT 1499) obv. 1

Genre: schematic astronomy: 'three stars each' + rising times
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 4th-2nd cent BCE

Horowitz, W., 2014. The Three Stars Each: The Astrolabes and Related Texts (Archiv für Orientforschung, Beiheft 33). Horn/Wien: Berger & Söhne/Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien. 126

[DIŠ MUL ša2 KI z]a-ri-i ša2 MAR.GID2.DA GUB-zu [m]ul.KA5.A d.Er3-ra gaš-ri DINGIR.MEŠ

‘¶ The star which stands in the shaft of the Wagon: the Fox, Erra, the strong one of the gods.’

— BM 86378 i 16-17

Genre: schematic astronomy: mulapin
Provenance: ?
Date: ca. 626-539 BCE

Hunger, H. and Steele, J., 2019. The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN. London and New York: Routledge. 33

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.KA5.A (Lemma #326). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/326/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.KA5.A (Lemma #326). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/326/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.KA5.A (Lemma #326). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/326/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) mul.KA5.A (Lemma #326), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/326/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac326,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mul.{KA5}.{A} ({Lemma} #326)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/326/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/326/},
}