mul.ŠU.GI
šību

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-02
Primary meaning Old-man-star
Literal translation Old-man-star
Variants
mul.ŠU.GI šību
mul2.ŠU.GI šību
Edited by
Old-man-star constellation, constellation: 3 x 12 constellations

approx. corresponding to Perseus

[iti.S]IG4 4 mul2.SIPA.ZI.NA 1.50 mul2.ŠU.GI 55 mul2.A-nu-ni-tu2

‘[Mo]nth III: 4 'The True Shepherd of Heaven', 1,50 'The Old Man', 55 Anunitu.’

— BM 34713 (LBAT 1499) obv. 3

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

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.ŠU.GI (Lemma #327). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/327/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.ŠU.GI (Lemma #327). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/327/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.ŠU.GI (Lemma #327). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/327/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) mul.ŠU.GI (Lemma #327), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/327/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac327,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mul.Š{U}.{GI} ({Lemma} #327)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/327/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/327/},
}