TE
ṭeḫû

Akkadian verb

Last edited: 2024-06-10
Primary meaning to come close
Literal translation to come close
Variants
TE ṭeḫû
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to come close, to approach verb of motion

[... ina] ⸢ZALAG₂⸣ dele-bat e GIR₃-ar₂-ša₂-UR.A 1 SI TE GE₆ 17 ina ZALAG₂ ⸢sin⸣ [... ŠUR-GIGIR-ša₂ ...]

‘[... la]st part of the night, Venus was 1 finger above β Virginis, it came close. Night of the 17th, last part of the night, the moo[n was ... β/ζ Tauri ...]’

— BM 45766 r. 7'

Genre: astronomical diary
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 323 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. 206-207

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Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). TE (Lemma #704). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/704/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A. (2024). TE (Lemma #704). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/704/
MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). TE (Lemma #704). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/704/
Harvard
Pilloni, A. (2024) TE (Lemma #704), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/704/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac704,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2024},
	title = {TE ({Lemma} #704)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/704/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/704/},
}