qaqqar rēši

KI SAG
Akkadian · noun
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2023-09-19
Meanings
Literal translation
region of the head
Categories
astrological concept

1. region of the head

1.a region of the head astrological concept

The first of three regions of a zodiacal sign.

⸢KI mul.GU⸣.[LA] | KI SAG-šu2 30 [MU] |KI MURUB4-šu2 ⸢15⸣ [MU?] | KI GIR3.II-šu2 7 MU 6 [ITI]

‘Region of Aqua[rius]. | Region of its head: 30 [years]. | Region of its middle: 15 [years?]. | Region of its feet: 7 years, 6 [months].’

— BM 32339+ rev. vi'-vii' 1'-4'

Genre: zodiacal astrology Provenance: Babylon Date: 400-300 BCE

Ossendrijver, M. 2018. BM 32339+32407+32645: New Evidence for Late Babylonian Astrology. In: Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic. Studies in Honor of Markham J. Geller, eds. Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludêk Vacín. Leiden and Boston: Brill: 401-420. 406

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). KI SAG (Lemma #768). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/768/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). KI SAG (Lemma #768). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/768/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). KI SAG (Lemma #768). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/768/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) KI SAG (Lemma #768), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/768/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac768,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {KI {SAG} ({Lemma} #768)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/768/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/768/},
}