ṣīt Šamši

ᵈUTU.E₃.A
Akkadian · noun
variants UTU.E₃.A : ṣīt Šamši , UTU.E₃ : ṣīt Šamši
Edited by: Mathieu Ossendrijver
Last edited: 2023-11-01
Meanings
Literal translation
sunrise
Categories
cardinal direction
Related Lemmata 10 ›

1. East

1.a East cardinal direction

primarily in texts predating ca. 400 BCE, rare in astronomical diaries

ina ZALAG₂ ina ᵈUTU.E₃.A ṣal-⸢lum⸣-[mu-u₂ ...]

‘Last part of the night, a com[et] in the east [...]’

— Rm 694+ (ADRT II No. -234A) rev. 3'

Genre: astronomical diary Provenance: Babylon Date: 235 BCE

Sachs, A. J., Hunger, H. 1989. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. II: Diaries from 261 B.C. to 165 B.C. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 96-97

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). dUTU.E₃.A (Lemma #656). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/656/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). dUTU.E₃.A (Lemma #656). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/656/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). dUTU.E₃.A (Lemma #656). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/656/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2023) dUTU.E₃.A (Lemma #656), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/656/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac656,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ᵈ{UTU}.{E}₃.{A} ({Lemma} #656)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/656/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/656/},
}