mul.MUŠ
Nirāḫu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-03-19
Primary meaning Snake-star
Literal translation snake
Variants
mul.MUŠ Nirāḫu
mul2.MUŠ Nirāḫu
mul.d.MUŠ Nirāḫu
Edited by
Snake-star constellation

[iti].ŠU 3.40 mul2.KAK.SI.SA2 2 mul2.UR.A 1 mul2.MUŠ

‘[Mo]nth IV: 3,40 'The Arrow', 2 'The Lion', 1 'The Snake'.’

— BM 34713 (LBAT 1499) obv. 4

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.d.MUŠ d.Nin-giš-zi-da EN er-ṣe-tu4

‘¶ The Snake, Ningišzida, lord of the Netherworld.’

— BM 86378 ii 8

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. 40

mul.MUŠ

‘Snake-star.’

— VAT 7847+AO 6448 caption for the drawing of the snake-dragon

Genre: microzodiac text
Provenance: Uruk
Date: early 2nd cent BCE

Weidner, E., 1967. Gestirn-Darstellungen auf babylonischen Tontafeln. Wien: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf. 9

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.MUŠ (Lemma #329). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/329/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.MUŠ (Lemma #329). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/329/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.MUŠ (Lemma #329). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/329/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) mul.MUŠ (Lemma #329), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/329/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac329,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mul.{MU}Š ({Lemma} #329)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/329/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/329/},
}