mul.KU6
nūnu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-07-03
Primary meaning Fish-star
Literal translation Fish-star
Variants
mul.KU6 nūnu
mul2.KU6 nūnu
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Fish-star constellation

Approx. corresponding to Piscis Austrinus.

[i]ti.ŠE 3 mul2.KU6 1.20 mul2.SIM.MAḪ 40 mul2.Da-mu

‘Month XII: 3 'The Fish', 1,20 'The Swallow', 40 Damu.’

— BM 34713 (LBAT 1499) obv. 12

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.KU6 (Lemma #393). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/393/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mul.KU6 (Lemma #393). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/393/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mul.KU6 (Lemma #393). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/393/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) mul.KU6 (Lemma #393), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/393/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac393,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {mul.{KU6} ({Lemma} #393)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/393/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/393/},
}