apsamakku

ap2-sa3-am-ma-ku
Akkadian · noun
variant ap2-sa3-am-ma-ku : apsammakku
Edited by: Mathieu Ossendrijver
Last edited: 2026-10-25
Meanings
Literal translation
apsamakku
Categories
geometrical shape
descriptive term

1. apsamakku

1.a apsamakku geometrical shape, descriptive term

ii 18) ¶ mul.ALLA šu-bat d.60 áp-sà-⌈am-ma⌉-ku 4 MUL ina Á.MEŠ-šú 19) e-ṣir-u’ ina lìb-bi-šú 6 MUL a-hi-nu-ú a-[h]a-meš U5-u’ 20) ⌈1+en⌉ MUL ina SAG-šú e-ṣir ina pa-n[i-šú mu.lSAG.ME.GAR GU]B-zu

‘ii 18) ¶ “The Crab,” the seat of Anu, an apsamakku. Four stars at its sides 19) are drawn; inside it six stars side by side straddle o[n]e another, 20) one star is drawn at its head, in fro[nt of it Jupiter stan]ds.’

— MLC 1866 Obv. ii 18-20

Genre: uranology text Provenance: Uruk Date: 214 BCE

P.-A. Beaulieu, E. Frahm, W. Horowitz and J. Steele 2018, The Cuneiform Uranology Texts. Drawing the Constellations. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 107, Part 2 36, 40

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2026). ap2-sa3-am-ma-ku (Lemma #6424). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6424/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2026). ap2-sa3-am-ma-ku (Lemma #6424). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6424/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2026). ap2-sa3-am-ma-ku (Lemma #6424). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6424/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2026) ap2-sa3-am-ma-ku (Lemma #6424), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6424/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6424,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
	year = {2026},
	title = {ap2-sa3-am-ma-ku ({Lemma} #6424)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6424/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6424/},
}