alluttu

ALLA

Akkadian · noun

variants mul.AL.LUL : alluttu , mul.ALLA : alluttu , mul₂.AL.LUL : alluttu

Edited by: Mathieu Ossendrijver , Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2024-06-17

Meanings

Literal translation

crab

1. Cancer

1.a Cancer zodiac sign

11 8.14 ⸢ALLA⸣

‘(Month X, day) 11, 8;14 Cancer’

— U 96 (ACT No. 191) obv. col. ii' 11

Genre: mathematical astronomy: daily motion table Provenance: Uruk Date: 197 BCE (Seleucid Era year 115)

Neugebauer ACT No. 191

ana ZI KUR ina ŠA3 mul.AL.LUL mul.UR.GU.LA u mul.GIR2.TAB

‘For an enemy attack: in the Crab, the Lion, and the Scorpion.’

— BM 47494 obv. 17

Genre: astrological compendium Provenance: Babylon? Date: 464-337 BCE

Hunger, H. 2004. Stars, Cities, and Predictions. Pp. 16–32 in Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree, eds. Charles Burnett, Jan Hogendijk, Kim Plofker and Michio Yano. Leiden: Brill.

1.b Cancer micro sign

[ḪA.LA] SAG-ti mul2.lu2.ḪUN.GA2 šum3-šu2 : ša2-ni-tum ḪA.LA MUL2.MUL2 šum3-šu2 | [3-tu]m ḪA.LA mul2.MAŠ.MAŠ šum3-šu2 : 4-ni!-tum ḪA.LA mul2.ALLA šum3-šu2 | [5-i-t]um ḪA.LA mul2.UR.A šum3-šu2 : 6-i-tum ḪA.LA mul2.ABSIN šum3-šu2 | [7-i]-tum ḪA.LA mul2.GIŠ.RIN2 šum3-šu2 : 8-i-tum ḪA.LA mul2.GIR2.TAB šum3-šu2 | [9]-i-tum ḪA.LA mul2.PA šum3-šu2 : 10-i-tum ḪA.LA mul2.MAŠ2 šum3-šu2 | 11-i-tum ḪA.LA mul2.GU šum3-šu2 : 12-i-tum ḪA.LA mul2.ZIB šum3-šu2 | PAP 12 UZU.MEŠ ḪA.LA ša2 mul2.LU ša2 d.30 u d.UTU ina lib3-bi DIB.MEŠ

‘The name of the first [portion] is Aries. The name of the second portion is Taurus. | The name of the [third] portion is Gemini. The name of the fourth portion is Cancer. |The name of the [fifth] portion is Leo. The name of the sixth portion is Virgo. | The name of the [seventh] portion is Libra. The name of the eighth portion is Scorpio. | The name of the [ninth] portion is Sagittarius. The name of the tenth portion is Capricornus. | The name of the eleventh portion is Aquarius. The name of the twelfth portion is Pisces. | Total: 12 ominous parts, portion(s) of Aries which the Moon and the Sun will pass through.’

— AO 6483 (TCL VI 14 = TU 14) 14-20

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

Sachs, A., 1952. Babylonian Horoscopes, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 6: 49-75. 66

2. Crab

2.a Crab constellation

3. crab

3.a crab animal

4. crab star

4.a crab star star, ziqpu star

ε Cancri

3 MA.NA ⸢1/3⸣ MA MIN 2/3 DANNA i-na KI.MIN 36 lim DANNA ina KI.MIN TA mul.MAŠ.TAB.BA EGIR-i EN mul.AL.LUL

‘3 1/3 minas ditto (weight), 2/3 bēru on ditto (the ground), 36 thousand bēru in ditto (heaven), from the Rear Twin to the Crab.’

— AO 6478 (TCL VI 21 = TU 21) rev. 9-10

Genre: star list Provenance: Uruk Date: ca. 200 BCE

Thureau-Dangin 1913, 'Distances entres étoiles fixes d'après une tablette de l'époque Séleucides', RA 10, 215-225 219

Cite this entry

APA (7th)

Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2024). ALLA (Lemma #98). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/98/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2024). ALLA (Lemma #98). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/98/

MLA (9th)

Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2024). ALLA (Lemma #98). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/98/

Harvard

Ossendrijver, M. and Schreiber, M. (2024) ALLA (Lemma #98), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/98/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac98,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu and Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ALLA ({Lemma} #98)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/98/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/98/},
}