AN
Ṣalbatānu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2025-08-18
Primary meaning Mars
Literal translation Mars
Variants
d.Ṣal-bat-a-nu Ṣalbatānu
AN Ṣalbatānu
d.UDU.IDIM.Ṣal-bat-a-nu Ṣalbatānu
d.Ṣal-bat Ṣalbatānu
d.Ṣal Ṣalbatānu
mul.Ṣal-bat-a-nu Ṣalbatānu
mul4.Ṣal-bat-a-nu Ṣalbatānu
mul2.Ṣal-bat-a-nu Ṣalbatānu
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Mars planet

MUL d.Ṣal-bat-a-nu : muš-ta-bar-ru-u2 mu-ta-nu

‘Mars : One who makes the pestilence continue.’

— BM 42262 (5R, 46, 1) 42

Genre: star list
Provenance: Borsippa
Date: Achaemenid or Seleucid period.

Wee, J. Z., 2016. A Late Babylonian Astral Commentary on Marduk's Address to the Demons, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 75. 162

BE-ma d.Ṣal ina UR.A lu ina GIR2.TAB lu ina MAŠ.TAB.GAL.GAL lu ina ALLA UŠ-ma GUR4

‘If Mars is stationary in Leo or in Scorpio or in Gemini or in Cancer and is bright (...)’

— O 176 (TCL VI 13 = TU 13) obv. ii 19

Genre: late astrology
Provenance: Uruk
Date: 250-150 BCE

Rochberg, F., 1987. TCL 6 13: Mixed Traditions in Late Babylonian Astrology, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 77: 207-228.

iti.GAN 2 mul2.Ṣal-bat-a-nu 1.10 mul2.GIR2.TAB 35 mul2.[LU]GAL

‘Month IX: 2 Mars, 1,10 'The Scorpion', 35 'The [Ki]ng'.’

— BM 34713 (LBAT 1499) obv. 9

Genre: schematic astronomy: 'three stars each' + rising times
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 4th-2nd cent BCE

Horowitz, W., 2014. The Three Stars Each: The Astrolabes and Related Texts (Archiv für Orientforschung, Beiheft 33). Horn/Wien: Berger & Söhne/Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien. 126


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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2025). AN (Lemma #81). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/81/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2025). AN (Lemma #81). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/81/

MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2025). AN (Lemma #81). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/81/

Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2025) AN (Lemma #81), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/81/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac81,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2025},
	title = {AN ({Lemma} #81)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/81/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/81/},
}