d.Iš8-tar2
Ištar

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-07-03
Primary meaning Venus
Literal translation Ištar
Variants
Iš8-tar2 Ištar Transliterations of this name vary in different editions: : aš11/eš4/eš18/iš8-dar/tar2, U.DAR..
d.Iš8-tar2 Ištar
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Ištar deity
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

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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). d.Iš8-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). d.Iš8-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). d.Iš8-tar2 (Lemma #471). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/471/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) d.Iš8-tar2 (Lemma #471), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/471/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac471,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	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/},
}