ūmū mitḫarūtu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-09-18
Primary meaning corresponding days
Variants
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corresponding days calendrical concept

EN.NUN DU3 mu-ši | EREN2 KASKAL šu-šu-rum | EREN2 URU ka-ša-du | ka-šad URU u EREN2 šu-šur KASKAL | u4-mu mit-ḫa-ru-tu4 SIG5.MEŠ

‘The watches of the entire night: | for dispatching the army on a campaign, | for the army to conquer a city, | for defeating a city and an army, for proceeding a campaign, | the corresponding days are favorable.’

— K 2847 xiii II 78-82

Genre: celestial divination
Provenance: Nineveh
Date: 7th century BCE

Oppenheim, A. L. 1974. A Babylonian Diviner’s Manual. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 33(2), 197–220. 201

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). ūmū mitḫarūtu (Lemma #804). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/804/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). ūmū mitḫarūtu (Lemma #804). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/804/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). ūmū mitḫarūtu (Lemma #804). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/804/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) ūmū mitḫarūtu (Lemma #804), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/804/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac804,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ūmū mitḫarūtu ({Lemma} #804)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/804/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/804/},
}