DUG.A.NAG
mašqû

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2025-05-18
Primary meaning water clock(?)
Literal translation drinking place
Variants
maš-qu-u mašqû
DUG.A.NAG mašqû lexical list
DUG.A.LA₂ mašqû lexical list
DUG.A.SIG mašqû lexical list
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watering place, drinking place noun
water clock(?) astronomical instrument, artefact of astral science

e-nu-ma ina bi-ib-lu UD-mu er-pu GAL₂-ka li-ti-ik-šu₂ DUG maš-qu-u

‘Should it happen to you that at the disappearance of the moon the weather should be cloudy, the water-clock(?) should be the means of computing it’

— K 2848 65

Genre: handbook
Provenance: Nineveh
Date: Neo-Assyrian

Oppenheim, A. L. 1974. A Babylonian Diviner’s Manual. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 33(2), 197–220. 200

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2025). DUG.A.NAG (Lemma #781). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/781/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A. (2025). DUG.A.NAG (Lemma #781). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/781/
MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A. (2025). DUG.A.NAG (Lemma #781). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/781/
Harvard
Pilloni, A. (2025) DUG.A.NAG (Lemma #781), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/781/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac781,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2025},
	title = {DUG.{A}.{NAG} ({Lemma} #781)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/781/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/781/},
}