ni-ip-ṣu
nipṣu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-10-30
Primary meaning ?
Literal translation ?
Variants
ni-ip-ṣu nipṣu
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A type of position in the zodiac that involves two planets. planetary position

Only attested so far in a text containing astrologcial weather forecasts.

ina ni-ip-ṣu ša2 d.SAG.ME.GAR ina mul2.UR.A AN ina mul2.GU ŠEG3 MAḪ | ina mul2.KUN u3 mul2.ABSIN KIMIN

‘At the nipṣu of Jupiter in Leo, and Mars in Aquarius: heavy rain. In Pisces and Virgo: dito.’

— AO 6449 (TCL 6 19 = TU 19) rev. 1-2

Genre: astrological weather prediction
Provenance: Uruk
Date: 226 BCE (12 V Seleucid Era 84)

Hunger, H. 1976. Astrologische Wettervorhersagen. Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie 66: 234–260 248

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). ni-ip-ṣu (Lemma #812). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/812/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). ni-ip-ṣu (Lemma #812). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/812/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). ni-ip-ṣu (Lemma #812). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/812/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) ni-ip-ṣu (Lemma #812), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/812/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac812,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ni-ip-ṣu ({Lemma} #812)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/812/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/812/},
}