MUL₂ DILI ša₂ KUN.ME-šu₂
kakkabu ēdu ša zibbātišu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-11-10
Primary meaning β Leonis
Literal translation single star from his tail
Variants
MUL₂ DILI ša₂ KUN.ME-šu₂ kakkabu ēdu ša zibbātišu
MUL DILI ša₂ KUN-šu₂ kakkabu ēdu ša zibbātišu
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β Leonis star: ziqpu star

MUL₂ DILI ša₂ KUN.ME-šu₂ [...]

‘The single star from his tail: [...]’

— BM 36628+ obv. iii 12'

Genre: astral compendium
Provenance: Babylon
Date: ca. 450-50 BCE

Steele, J. 2015, A Late Babylonian Compendium of Calendrical and Stellar Astrology, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 67, 187-215 196, 202

1 2/3 MA.NA MIN 10 UŠ i-na KI.MIN 18 lim DANNA ina KI.MIN | TA MUL 2 ša₂ GIŠ.KUN-šu₂ EN MUL DILI ša₂ KUN-šu₂

‘1 2/3 minas ditto (weight), 10 UŠ on ditto (the ground), 18 thousand bēru in ditto (heaven), | from the 2 stars of its rump to the single star of its tail.’

— AO 6478 (TCL VI 21 = TU 21) rev. 17-18

Genre: star list
Provenance: Uruk
Date: ca. 200 BCE

Thureau-Dangin 1913, 'Distances entres étoiles fixes d'après une tablette de l'époque Séleucides', RA 10, 215-225 219

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APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). MUL₂ DILI ša₂ KUN.ME-šu₂ (Lemma #570). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/570/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). MUL₂ DILI ša₂ KUN.ME-šu₂ (Lemma #570). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/570/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). MUL₂ DILI ša₂ KUN.ME-šu₂ (Lemma #570). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/570/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. and Schreiber, M. (2023) MUL₂ DILI ša₂ KUN.ME-šu₂ (Lemma #570), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/570/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac570,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu and Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {MUL₂ {DILI} ša₂ {KUN}.{ME}-šu₂ ({Lemma} #570)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/570/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/570/},
}