〈MUL₂ TUR ša₂ 4 KUŠ₃ ar₂ LUGAL〉 kakkabu ṣeḫru ša 4 ammati arki šarri ‘ρ Leonis’
〈MUL₂ 4 ša₂ GABA-šu₂〉 kakkabu 4 ša irat nēši ‘α+η+γ+ζ Leonis?’
〈UR.A〉 nēšu ‘Leo’
〈Βασιλίσκος〉 Basiliskos ‘Regulus (α Leonis)’
mul.LUGAL
šarru
Akkadian noun
Last edited: 2025-03-24| Primary meaning | King-star |
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| Literal translation | King-star |
| Variants | mul.LUGAL šarru mul2.LUGAL šarru LUGAL šarru in astronomical diaries |
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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'.’
α Leonis (Regulus) star: normal star, 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.’
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: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac390,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
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/},
}