TA
ultu

Akkadian preposition

Last edited: 2023-07-25
Primary meaning from
Literal translation from
Variants
TA iš-tu until OB
TA ul-tu from MB on
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from preposition

a point in space and time

igi ana igi ta 25 maš.maš en 30 gir2.tab 30 tab

‘(First) appearance to (first) appearance. From 25 Gem until 30 Sco you add 30.’

— BM 34081+ (BMAPT No. 18) obv. i 8'

Genre: mathematical astronomy: procedure text
Provenance: Babylon
Date: ca. 250-50 BCE

Ossendrijver, M. 2012. Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts. New York: Springer. 248

sin TA SIG x pa-nu-šu2 ana MURU4 GAR.MEŠ

‘The moon goes from the distance below the ecliptic toward the node’

— W 20030/10 obv. 9

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Uruk
Date: Seleucid

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88, 1–164. 100-101

"SIG" was previously interpreted as "negative latitude". This is misleading, since in Babylonian there is no concept of "negative numbers".
out of preposition

a place, an object, a quantity

since preposition
after preposition
by preposition
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2023). TA (Lemma #448). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/448/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A. (2023). TA (Lemma #448). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/448/
MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A. (2023). TA (Lemma #448). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/448/
Harvard
Pilloni, A. (2023) TA (Lemma #448), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/448/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac448,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2023},
	title = {TA ({Lemma} #448)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/448/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/448/},
}