ALLA
alluttu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-17
Primary meaning Cancer
Literal translation crab
Variants
mul.AL.LUL alluttu
mul.ALLA alluttu
ALLA alluttu
mul2.AL.LUL alluttu
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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.


Crab constellation

crab animal

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


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


See also

gnhḏCancer

Καρκίνος KarkinosCancer

MUL₂ ar₂ ša₂ ALLA ša₂ ULU₃ kakkabu arkû ša allutti ša šūtiδ Cancri

MUL₂ IGI ša₂ ALLA ša₂ SI kakkabu maḫrû ša allutti ša iltāniη Cancri

MUL₂ IGI ša₂ ALLA ša₂ ULU₃ kakkabu maḫrû ša allutti ša šūtiθ Cancri

zi-im ša₂ ŠA₃ ALLA zīm ša libbi alluttiPraesepe (Beehive Cluster)

MUL₂ ar₂ ša₂ ALLA ša₂ SI kakkabu arkû ša allutti ša iltāniγ Cancri

cancer Cancer

trigonum martis Mars' triangle

סרטנא srṭnʾCancer

סַרְטָן sarṭānCancer

mul.LUL.LA sarruMars

कर्किन् karkinCancer

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: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac98,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	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/},
}