U₄.BI
inūšu

Akkadian adverb

Last edited: 2024-06-24
Primary meaning at that time
Literal translation that day
Variants
U₄.BI inūšu
i-nu-šu₂ inūšu
e-nu-šu inūšu
i-nu-ši inūšu
in₆-uš₂ inūšu
Edited by
at that time adverb of time

SIG 30 sin ar₂ ALLA IGI ka-bar 20 na SI GIN i-nu-šu₂ AN u GU₄.UD 4 KUŠ₃ ina IGI L[UGAL]

‘Month III, (the 1st of which was identical with) the 30th (of the preceding month), the moon became visible behind Cancer; it was thick; sunset to moonset: 20°; the north wind blew. At that time, Mars and Mercury were 4 cubits in front of α L[eonis].’

— VAT 4956 (ADRT I No. -567) 12

Genre: astronomical diary
Provenance: ?
Date: 568 BC

Sachs, A. J., Hunger, H. 1988. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. I: Diaries from 652 B.C. to 262 B.C. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 48-49

i-nu-šu₂ MUL₂.BABBAR ina MAŠ₂ dil-bat ina GIR₂.TAB

‘At that time, Jupiter was in Capricorn, Venus in Scorpio’

— BM 33667 u.e. 1

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Babylon
Date: Seleucid era

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88, 1–164. 73-74

that day adverb of time

U₄.BI sin ina A šamaš₂ ina 12,30 ina MAŠ.MAŠ

‘That day the moon was in Leo, the sun was in 12;30 Gemini’

— MLC 2190 obv. 3

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Uruk
Date: Seleucid era

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88, 1–164. 83-84

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). U₄.BI (Lemma #665). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/665/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A. (2024). U₄.BI (Lemma #665). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/665/
MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). U₄.BI (Lemma #665). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/665/
Harvard
Pilloni, A. (2024) U₄.BI (Lemma #665), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/665/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac665,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2024},
	title = {U₄.{BI} ({Lemma} #665)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/665/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/665/},
}