ṣipru

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-03
Primary meaning coma
Variants
ṣip-ru ṣipru
Edited by
crest common noun
coma (of a comet)

DIŠ MUL4 ša2 ina IGI-šu2 ṣip-ru ina EGIR-šu2 KUN GAR-[nu] | IGI-ma AN-e ZALAG2-ir ki-ma ṣal-lu-mu-u2 | ki-ma me-šiḫ MUL.MEŠ

‘If a star that has a coma in front and a tail behind | appears and it lightens up the sky like a comet, | like the flashing of stars.’

— K 250+ (CT 26 40-41) iv 13-15

Genre: star list
Provenance: Nineveh
Date: 7th cent BCE

Koch-Westenholz, U., 1995. Mesopotamian Astrology. An Introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestial Divination. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. 194

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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). ṣipru (Lemma #802). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/802/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). ṣipru (Lemma #802). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/802/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). ṣipru (Lemma #802). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/802/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) ṣipru (Lemma #802), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/802/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac802,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ṣipru ({Lemma} #802)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/802/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/802/},
}