urdimmu

mul.UR.IDIM
Akkadian · noun
variant mul₂.UR.IDIM : urdimmu
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2025-02-26
Meanings
Literal translation
mad dog
Categories
constellation
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. Mad-dog-star

1.a Mad-dog-star constellation

Approx. corresponding to Lupus.

DIŠ ina iti.APIN ina še-rim mul2.UR.IDIM 2.20 meš-ḫu im-šuḫ A.DAM ⌈BAL.MEŠ⌉-ma A.AB.BA ib-bal

‘If in Araḫsamna during the morning-watch, 'The Mad-Dog' - 2,20 - produced a glow; the pasture land(s) will be passed over and the sea will dry up.’

— BM 34713 (LBAT 1499) obv. 20

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. 127

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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2025). mul.UR.IDIM (Lemma #379). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/379/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2025). mul.UR.IDIM (Lemma #379). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/379/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2025). mul.UR.IDIM (Lemma #379). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/379/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2025) mul.UR.IDIM (Lemma #379), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/379/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac379,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2025},
	title = {mul.{UR}.{IDIM} ({Lemma} #379)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/379/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/379/},
}