mul.IBILA.E2.MAḪ
Ibila-Emaḫ

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-07-03
Primary meaning Heir-of-the-Sublime-Temple-star
Literal translation Heir-of-the-Sublime-Temple-star
Variants
mul.IBILA.E2.MAḪ Ibila-Emaḫ
Edited by
Heir-of-the-Sublime-Temple-star constellation

Approx. corresponding to α Ursae Minoris (?)

DIŠ MUL ša2 ina ṭur-ri-šu2 GUB-zu mul.IBILA.E2.MAḪ DUMU res-tu-u2 ša2 d.A-nu-um

‘¶ The star which stands in its knot: the Heir of the Sublime Temple, the first-ranking son of Anu.’

— BM 86378 i 21-22

Genre: schematic astronomy: mulapin
Provenance: ?
Date: ca. 626-539 BCE

Hunger, H. and Steele, J., 2019. The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN. London and New York: Routledge. 34

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mul.IBILA.E2.MAḪ (Lemma #409). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/409/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mul.IBILA.E2.MAḪ (Lemma #409). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/409/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mul.IBILA.E2.MAḪ (Lemma #409). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/409/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) mul.IBILA.E2.MAḪ (Lemma #409), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/409/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac409,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {mul.{IBILA}.{E2}.{MA}Ḫ ({Lemma} #409)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/409/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/409/},
}