peṣû

mul.BABBAR
Akkadian · adjective
variants mul₂.BABBAR : peṣû , BABBAR : peṣû
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2024-06-04
Meanings
Literal translation
white, pale
Categories
planet
Related Lemmata 12 ›

1. Jupiter

1.a Jupiter planet

MU.48 ŠE GE6 [23(?)] | lu2.TUR a-lid | U4.BI 20 ina 13.30 LU | 30 ina 10 GU | BABBAR ina SAG A | dil-bat KI 20 | GU4 KI 20 | GENNA ina ALLA | AN ina TIL ALLA

‘Year 48, month XII, night of the [23th(?)], | the child was born. | That day the sun was in 13;30 Aries, | the moon in 10° Aquarius, | Jupiter at the beginning of Leo, | Venus with the sun, | Mercury with the sun, | Saturn in Cancer, | Mars at the end of Cancer.’

— MLC 1870 (BH 5) 1-9

Genre: horoscope Provenance: Uruk Date: 3rd century BCE (date of birth in horoscope: S.E. 48 XII.[23] =-262 April 4)

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88. 65

DU6 22 mul2.BABBAR ina GU UŠ | ina ŠE 2 ina KUN ŠU2

‘Month VII the 22nd, Jupiter's (2nd) stationary point in Aquarius. | Around the 2nd of month XII, (Jupiter's) last visibility in Pisces.’

— AO 17649 (BH 1) rev. 1-2

Genre: horoscope Provenance: Nippur Date: 5th-4th century BCE (date of birth in horoscope: Darius II., Year 13, X.24 = -409 Jan. 12/13)

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88. 51

2. white, pale, bleached

2.a white, pale, bleached
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.BABBAR (Lemma #89). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/89/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.BABBAR (Lemma #89). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/89/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). mul.BABBAR (Lemma #89). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/89/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) mul.BABBAR (Lemma #89), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/89/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac89,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mul.{BABBAR} ({Lemma} #89)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/89/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/89/},
}