birqu

NIM.GIR₂
Akkadian · noun
variant GIR₂ : birqu
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2024-06-02
Meanings
Literal translation
lightning
Categories
meteorological phenomenon
celestial phenomenon

1. lightning

1.a lightning meteorological phenomenon, celestial phenomenon

d.GU4.UD u AN ina ŠU2 ina mul2.ŠU.GI GUB.MEŠ-ma ŠEG3 u ILLU NIM.GIR2 u GU3 d.IŠKUR

‘(When) Mercury and Mars are standing in the west, in the Old-Man-star: rain and flood, lightning and thunder.’

— AO 6449 (TCL 6 19 = TU 19) rev. 15

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

Hunger, H. 1976. Astrologische Wettervorhersagen. Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie 66: 234–260 249

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). NIM.GIR₂ (Lemma #816). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/816/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). NIM.GIR₂ (Lemma #816). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/816/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). NIM.GIR₂ (Lemma #816). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/816/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) NIM.GIR₂ (Lemma #816), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/816/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac816,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {NIM.{GIR}₂ ({Lemma} #816)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/816/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/816/},
}