qību (?)

IB₂.ME.A
Akkadian · noun
Edited by: Alessia Pilloni
Last edited: 2026-08-28
Meanings
Literal translation
prediction
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. prediction

1.a prediction

2 u₄-mu [TA] IGI 2 U₄ [x x x x x x x x x x x x] IB₂.ME.A GAR-an [x x]

‘2 days "from the appearence, 2 days [...] 30 20 you put down as a prediction’

— BM 76488 obv. 10

Genre: mathematical astronomy: procedure text Provenance: Babylon or Sippar? Date: Seleucid

Ossendrijver, M. 2017. BM 76488 - a Babylonian Compendium about Conjunctions and other Planetary Phenomena, in: Steele J. & Ossendrijver M. Studies on the Ancient Exact Sciences in Honour of Lis Brack-Bernsen. 127-146. 130

2. command, instruction

2.a command, instruction
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2026). IB₂.ME.A (Lemma #718). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/718/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A. (2026). IB₂.ME.A (Lemma #718). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/718/
MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A. (2026). IB₂.ME.A (Lemma #718). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/718/
Harvard
Pilloni, A. (2026) IB₂.ME.A (Lemma #718), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/718/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac718,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2026},
	title = {IB₂.{ME}.{A} ({Lemma} #718)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/718/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/718/},
}