Ištar

Akkadian · noun
variant Iš₈-tar₂ : Ištar
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2023-07-03
Meanings
Literal translation
Ištar
Categories
deity
planet
Related Lemmata 12 ›

1. Ištar

1.a Ištar deity

2. Venus

2.a Venus planet

DIŠ Iš₈-tar2 ina iti.še-er-BURU14 ina KUR 20 KUR-ma ⸢TUR3⸣ ⸢NIGIN2⸣ KUR ELAM.MA.ki me-sir IGI

‘If Venus in the month of the Harvest Furrow rises at sunrise and is surrounded by a halo: Elam will experience hemming in.’

— K 229+ rev. 24

Genre: celestial divination: enūma anu enlil 59-60 Provenance: Nineveh Date: 7th century BCE

Reiner, E. & Pingree, D., 1998. Babylonian Planetary Omens: Part Three (Cuneiform Monographs 11). Groningen: Styx. 178

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). dIš₈-tar₂ (Lemma #471). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/471/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). dIš₈-tar₂ (Lemma #471). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/471/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). dIš₈-tar₂ (Lemma #471). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/471/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) dIš₈-tar₂ (Lemma #471), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/471/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac471,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ᵈ{I}š₈-tar₂ ({Lemma} #471)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/471/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/471/},
}