IZI.GAR
dipāru

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-24
Primary meaning meteor
Literal translation torch
Variants
IZI.GAR dipāru
d.IZI.GAR dipāru
di-par dipāru
Edited by
torch noun
meteor celestial object

in the diaries

[...] GE₆ IZI.GAR TA KUR ana MAR SUR-ma SUR-šu₂ ma-gal BABBAR

‘[...] night, a torch flashed from east to west, and its flash was very white.’

— BM 41693 r A10'

Genre: astronomical diary
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 119 BC

Sachs, A. J., Hunger, H. 1996. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. III. Diaries from 164 B.C. to 61 B.C. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 324-325

EN TI-šu₂ gab-bi d.IZI.GAR u d.ṣal-lum-mu-u₂ DU₃-uš ša₂-niš sin ina DU₆ IGI-ma ana MUL₂.ALLA TE

‘until all of its ..., it will make a meteor and/or a comet; variant: i.e. the moon is seen in month VII(?) and comes close to the Crab’

— AO 6455 (TCL VI 11 = TU 11) obv. 4

Genre: collection of astrological and astronomical rules
Provenance: Uruk
Date: ca. 200 BCE

Brack-Bernsen, Lis, and Hunger, Hermann. 2002. TU 11. A Collection of Rules for the Prediction of Lunar Phases and of Month Lengths. SCIAMVS 3: 3–90. 7, 14

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). IZI.GAR (Lemma #732). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/732/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A. (2024). IZI.GAR (Lemma #732). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/732/
MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). IZI.GAR (Lemma #732). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/732/
Harvard
Pilloni, A. (2024) IZI.GAR (Lemma #732), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/732/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac732,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2024},
	title = {IZI.{GAR} ({Lemma} #732)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/732/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/732/},
}