〈—〉 swsw ‘degree’
〈DANNA〉 bēru ‘bēru’
〈NINDA〉 nindanu ‘nindanu’
〈μοῖρα〉 moira ‘degree’
〈pars〉 ‘degree’
〈UŠ〉 šuššu ‘sixty’
〈pars novissima〉 ‘the latest degree’
〈pars tropica〉 ‘tropic degree’
UŠ
šuššān
Akkadian noun
Last edited: 2024-11-03| Primary meaning | degree |
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| Literal translation | (time) degree |
| Variants | UŠ šuššān šu-uš-ša2-an šuššān Rare phonetic writing (see Ossendrijver 2022 NABU No. 68) šu-ši šūši Rare phonetic writing (see Ossendrijver 2022 NABU No. 68) |
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(time) degree unit of time
[... ki?] ⸢iz⸣-ku-u₂ MUL₂.BABBAR E-a ina 10 UŠ ME ana ŠU₂ šamaš₂
kizkū MUL₂.BABBAR E-a ina 10 UŠ ME ana ŠU₂ šamaš₂
‘[... when?] it had cleared, Jupiter came out; (the eclipse began) at 10° before sunset’
UŠ unit of celestial position
UŠ unit of length
30 šu-uš-ša2-an be2-e-ri
‘30 šuššān is a bēru.’
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). UŠ (Lemma #80). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/80/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A. (2024). UŠ (Lemma #80). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/80/
MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). UŠ (Lemma #80). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/80/
Harvard
Pilloni, A. (2024) UŠ (Lemma #80), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/80/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac80,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
year = {2024},
title = {UŠ ({Lemma} #80)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/80/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/80/},
}