ašar niṣirti

KI niṣirti
Akkadian · noun
variants KI ni-ṣir-tu₂ : ašar niṣirti , KI ni-ṣir-ti₃ : ašar niṣirti
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2026-10-06
Meanings
Literal translation
place of secret
Categories
astrological
astrological position
planetary position
Related Lemmata 10 ›

1. exaltation

1.a exaltation astrological, astrological position, planetary position

KI ni-ṣir-tu4 ša2 d.UTU mul.lu2.ḪUN.GA2 d.Du[mu-zi . . .]

‘The place of secret of the Sun is the Hired Man constellation (Aries), Du[muzi …].’

— BM 35407+ i 30'

Genre: calendar treatise Provenance: Babylon Date: 4th-2nd century BCE

Reynolds, F., 2019. A Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 194

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2026). KI niṣirti (Lemma #752). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/752/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2026). KI niṣirti (Lemma #752). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/752/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2026). KI niṣirti (Lemma #752). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/752/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2026) KI niṣirti (Lemma #752), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/752/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac752,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2026},
	title = {KI niṣirti ({Lemma} #752)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/752/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/752/},
}