enzu

mul.UZ₃
Akkadian · noun
variant mul₂.UZ₃ : enzu
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2025-02-26
Meanings
Literal translation
she-goat
Categories
constellation
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. She-goat-star

1.a She-goat-star constellation

Approx. corresponding to Lyra.

⌈iti⌉.AB 2.20 mul2.Gu-la 1 mul2.UD.KA.DUḪ.A 30 mul2.[U]Z3

‘Month X: 2,20 'The Great One', 1 'The Demon with the Gaping Mouth', 30 'The [She]-Goat'.’

— BM 34713 (LBAT 1499) obv. 10

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. (2025). mul.UZ₃ (Lemma #374). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/374/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2025). mul.UZ₃ (Lemma #374). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/374/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2025). mul.UZ₃ (Lemma #374). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/374/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2025) mul.UZ₃ (Lemma #374), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/374/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac374,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2025},
	title = {mul.{UZ}₃ ({Lemma} #374)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/374/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/374/},
}