mul.UGA.mušen
āribu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2025-01-31
Primary meaning Raven-star
Literal translation Raven-star
Variants
mul.UGA.mušen āribu
mul2.UGA.mušen āribu
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Raven-star constellation, constellation: 3 x 12 constellations

approx. corresponding to Corvus

iti.DU6 2.40 mul2.NIN.MAḪ 1.30 mul2.UGA.mušen 45 mul2[Š]U.PA

‘Month VII: 2,40 Ninmaḫ, 1,30 'The Raven', 45 ŠU.PA.’

— BM 34713 (LBAT 1499) obv. 7

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

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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2025). mul.UGA.mušen (Lemma #333). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/333/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2025). mul.UGA.mušen (Lemma #333). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/333/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2025). mul.UGA.mušen (Lemma #333). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/333/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2025) mul.UGA.mušen (Lemma #333), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/333/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac333,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2025},
	title = {mul.{UGA}.mušen ({Lemma} #333)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/333/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/333/},
}