tērsītu

Akkadian · noun
variant te-er-si-tu₄ : tērsītu
Edited by: Mathieu Ossendrijver
Last edited: 2025-05-11
Meanings
Literal translation
construction
Categories
astronomical genre
artefact of astral science
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. computed table

1.a computed table astronomical genre, artefact of astral science

te-er-si-tu₄ ša₂ m.ki-din-nu

‘Computed table according to Kidinnu.’

— BM 45849+ (ACT No. 123a) rev. 22

Genre: mathematical astronomy: synodic table Provenance: Babylon Date: 2nd century BCE

Neugebauer, Otto, 1955, Astronomical Cuneiform Texts

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2025). ter-si-tu₄ (Lemma #720). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/720/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2025). ter-si-tu₄ (Lemma #720). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/720/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2025). ter-si-tu₄ (Lemma #720). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/720/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2025) ter-si-tu₄ (Lemma #720), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/720/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac720,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ter-si-tu₄ ({Lemma} #720)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/720/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/720/},
}