eš-šu
eššu

Akkadian adjective

Last edited: 2023-07-24
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Variants
eš-še-tu₂ eššetu fem. form
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Refers to the (future) Goal Year in Goal Year procedures

TA BAR ša₂ MU-ka eš-še-tu₂ 18 GUR-ma KI.LA₂ u₄-mu u GI₆ ša₂ BAR ša₂ 18-ka tam-mar

‘From month I of your new year you turn back 18 and you see the duration ("weight") of day and night of month I of your (year) 18.’

— AO 6455 (TU 11) rev. 5

Genre: mathematical astronomy: procedure text
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.

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APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). eš-šu (Lemma #772). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/772/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). eš-šu (Lemma #772). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/772/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). eš-šu (Lemma #772). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/772/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2023) eš-šu (Lemma #772), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/772/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac772,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
	year = {2023},
	title = {eš-šu ({Lemma} #772)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/772/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/772/},
}