IB₂.ME.A
qību (?)

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-09-13
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IB₂.ME.A qību (?)
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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

command, instruction noun
declaration noun
injunction noun
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2023). 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. (2023). 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. (2023). 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. (2023) 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: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac718,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2023},
	title = {IB₂.{ME}.{A} ({Lemma} #718)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/718/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/718/},
}