MUL₂.na-aṣ-ra-pu
naṣrapu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-06-26
Primary meaning naṣrapu-star
Literal translation ?
Variants
MUL₂.na-aṣ-ra-pu naṣrapu
Edited by
naṣrapu-star star: ziqpu star

attested in diaries to mark time, identified with b (,c?) Persei (Hunger & Pingree 1999, 274).

[GI₆ 5 SAG GI₆ MUL₂].⸢na-aṣ-ra⸣-pu ziq-pi [GENNA ana] ⸢SI⸣ sin ša₂ ULU₃ KU₄

‘[Night of (day) 5] Naṣrapu-star (in) culmination, [Saturn] entered the southern [horn of] Sin.’

— BM 45693+ (ADRT III -124B) obv. 24'

Genre: astronomical diary
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 125 BCE

Sachs, A. J., Hunger, H. 1996. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. III. Diaries from 164 B.C. to 61 B.C. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 276-277

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APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). MUL₂.na-aṣ-ra-pu (Lemma #488). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/488/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). MUL₂.na-aṣ-ra-pu (Lemma #488). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/488/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). MUL₂.na-aṣ-ra-pu (Lemma #488). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/488/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2023) MUL₂.na-aṣ-ra-pu (Lemma #488), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/488/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac488,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
	year = {2023},
	title = {MUL₂.na-aṣ-ra-pu ({Lemma} #488)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/488/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/488/},
}