UŠ
šuššu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-09-20
Primary meaning sixty
Literal translation sixty
Variants
1-šu šuššu
UŠ šuššu rare in astronomical texts from the first millennium BCE
Edited by
sixty mathematical quantity: number

ina 1-šu ME 6 KI ana ar₂-šu₂ LA₂-[ma UŠ ar₂-tu₂ ...]

‘In sixty days the position (of Jupiter) recedes 6 (UŠ), [then the second station ...]’

— BM 35241 (BMAPT No. 27) side X 6'

Genre: mathematical astronomy: procedure text
Provenance: Babylon
Date: ca. 350-50 BCE

Ossendrijver, M. 2012. Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts. New York: Springer 279

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). UŠ (Lemma #820). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/820/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). UŠ (Lemma #820). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/820/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M. (2023). UŠ (Lemma #820). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/820/
Harvard
Ossendrijver, M. (2023) UŠ (Lemma #820), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/820/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac820,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu},
	year = {2023},
	title = {UŠ ({Lemma} #820)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/820/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/820/},
}