〈ḪAB-rat〉 ? ‘disk’
ḫepû
Akkadian adjective
Last edited: 2024-06-17| Primary meaning | broken |
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| Literal translation | broken |
| Variants | ḫe-pit₂-tu₂ ḫepītu fem. form |
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broken philological term
broken astronomical term
Rarely attested in connection with eclipse magnitude, meaning unclear
(11') ana tar-ṣa 1 : ŠU.SI ḪAB-rat ḫe-pit₂-tu₂ 1.⸢38⸣.2⸢4⸣ (12') NIM u SIG GAR-an ša₂ al 1 ḪAB-rat ḫe-pit₂-tu₂ LA₂ TA 1 LA₂ ša₂ TA[G₄ A.RA₂ 6 DU] (13') KI 1.38.24 NIM u SIG TAB-ma ana SIG NIM GAR-an
‘(11') Opposite 1 finger, the broken disk, you put 1,3[8];24 (12’) as the height and depth. That which is less than 1, the broken disk, you deduct from 1. What rem[ains you multiply by 6,] (13') add to 1,38;24, the ‘height and depth’, and you put it down as the depth, ascending.’
APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2024). ḫepû (Lemma #773). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/773/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2024). ḫepû (Lemma #773). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/773/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2024). ḫepû (Lemma #773). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/773/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2024) ḫepû (Lemma #773), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/773/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac773,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
year = {2024},
title = {ḫepû ({Lemma} #773)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/773/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/773/},
}