erû

mul.TI₈.mušen
Akkadian · noun
variant mul₂.TI₈.mušen : erû
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2023-07-03
Meanings
Literal translation
eagle
Categories
constellation
Related Lemmata 1 ›

1. Eagle-star

1.a Eagle-star constellation

Approx. corresponding to Aquila.

[i]ti.ZIZ2 2.40 mul2.NU.MUŠ.DA 1.10 mul2.⌈ALLA⌉ 35 mul2.TI8.m[uše]n

‘Month XI: 2,40 Numušda, 1,10 'The Crab', 35 'The Eagle'.’

— BM 34713 (LBAT 1499) obv. 11

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. (2023). mul.TI₈.mušen (Lemma #392). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/392/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mul.TI₈.mušen (Lemma #392). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/392/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mul.TI₈.mušen (Lemma #392). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/392/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) mul.TI₈.mušen (Lemma #392), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/392/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac392,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {mul.{TI}₈.mušen ({Lemma} #392)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/392/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/392/},
}