mul.ŠU.PA

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-02-09
Primary meaning ŠU.PA-star
Variants
mul.ŠU.PA
mul2.ŠU.PA
Edited by
ŠU.PA-star constellation

Approx. corresponding to Boötes.

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 [Š]U.PA.’

— BM 34713 (LBAT 1499) obv. 7

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

10 ŠU.PA ina KUR IGI

‘(Day) 10, ŠU.PA appears in the east.’

— MLC 1885 (ADRT VII No. 57) obv. 12'

Genre: astronomical diaries and related texts: normal star almanac
Provenance: Uruk
Date: ca. 180 BCE

Hunger, H. 2014. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. VII: Almanacs and Normal Star Almanacs. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 114-115

α Boötis (Arcturus)

In astronomical diaries and related texts

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.ŠU.PA (Lemma #334). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/334/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.ŠU.PA (Lemma #334). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/334/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.ŠU.PA (Lemma #334). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/334/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) mul.ŠU.PA (Lemma #334), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/334/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac334,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mul.Š{U}.{PA} ({Lemma} #334)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/334/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/334/},
}