šarru

mul.LUGAL

Akkadian · noun

variants mul₂.LUGAL : šarru , LUGAL : šarru

Edited by: Mathieu Ossendrijver , Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2025-03-24

Meanings

1. King-star

2. α Leonis (Regulus)

Literal translation

king

1. King-star

1.a King-star constellation: 3 x 12 constellations

iti.GAN 2 mul2.Ṣal-bat-a-nu 1.10 mul2.GIR2.TAB 35 mul2.[LU]GAL

‘Month IX: 2 Mars, 1,10 'The Scorpion', 35 'The [Ki]ng'.’

— BM 34713 (LBAT 1499) obv. 9

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

2. α Leonis (Regulus)

2.a α Leonis (Regulus) star, normal star

Jones (2004): c15

⸢ina ZALAG₂⸣ dil-bat e LUGAL 2 SI dil-bat 4 SI ana ŠU₂ LAL

‘Last part of the night, Venus was 2 fingers above the king (star), Venus being 4 fingers back to the west.’

— BM 33850 (ADRT III No. -162) obv. 13

Genre: astronomical diary Provenance: Babylon Date: 163 BCE

Sachs, A. J., Hunger, H. 1996. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. III. Diaries from 164 B.C. to 61 B.C. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 24-25

Cite this entry

APA (7th)

Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2025). mul.LUGAL (Lemma #390). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/390/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2025). mul.LUGAL (Lemma #390). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/390/

MLA (9th)

Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2025). mul.LUGAL (Lemma #390). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/390/

Harvard

Ossendrijver, M. and Schreiber, M. (2025) mul.LUGAL (Lemma #390), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/390/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac390,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu and Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2025},
	title = {mul.{LUGAL} ({Lemma} #390)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/390/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/390/},
}