KI niṣirti
ašar niṣirti

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-12-09
Primary meaning exaltation
Literal translation place of secret
Variants
KI ni-ṣir-tu2 ašar niṣirti
KI ni-ṣir-ti3 ašar niṣirti
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exaltation astrological concept, 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. (2024). 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. (2024). 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. (2024). KI niṣirti (Lemma #752). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/752/

Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) KI niṣirti (Lemma #752), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/752/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac752,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {KI niṣirti ({Lemma} #752)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/752/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/752/},
}