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[[File:Pleiades and Venus in blue dawn 2020.jpg|alt=photograph|thumb|Venus in the morning sky, just above the mountain.]]
= "Shield"; an ancient Mesopotamian epithet of Venus [G. 41; CAD A/2, 270]. 

==Dictionary (Provenance of the term)==
===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== 

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|'''''"The Great Star List".''''' 
* '''(1)''' <sup>mul</sup>a-ri-tum = <sup>d</sup>iš-tar min(= be-let kur.kur) "Shield = Ishtar, ruler of countries", 
* (2) <sup>mul</sup>a-ri-tum = mulmin(= ab.sin<sub>2</sub>) "Shield = Furrow" [Mesop.Astrol., App. B:32, 44].
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|'''''"Prayers to the Gods of the Night".'''''  
*Neo-Assyrian prayer: <sup>mul</sup>E-ri-tu<sub>2</sub> [Oppenheim 1959, 283:20].
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|'''''LBAT 1564:2.''''' 
*The name of Venus in the month of Ayaru: <sup>mul</sup>a-ri-tum <sup>mul</sup>dil-bat ina <sup>iti</sup>gu<sub>4</sub> "Shield = Venus in the month of Ayaru".
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===additional===
The deity <sup>d</sup>a-ri-tum is mentioned in Šurpu VIII 28; see also [Tallqvist 1938, 256].

==Historical Dictionaries== 
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! scope="col" style="width: 60%;" |Kurtik (2022)
! scope="col" style="width: 40%;" |Gössmann (1950)
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|= «Щит»; эпитет Венеры [G. 41; CAD A/2, 270].||Example
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|I. Источники.
«'''''Большой список звезд»'''''. '''(1)''' <sup>mul</sup>''a-ri-tum'' = <sup>d</sup>''iš-tar''  min(= ''be-let'' kur.kur) «Щит = Иштар, владычица стран», '''(2)''' <sup>mul</sup>''a-ri-tum'' = <sup>mul</sup>min(= ab.sin<sub>2</sub>) «Щит = Борозда» [Mesop.Astrol., App. B:32, 44]. «'''''Молитвы ночным богам»'''''. Новоассирийская молитва: <sup>mul</sup>''E-ri-tu''<sub>2</sub> [Oppenheim 1959, 283:20]. '''''LBAT 1564:2.''''' Имя Венеры в месяце айяру: <sup>mul</sup>''a-ri-tum'' <sup>mul</sup>''dil-bat ina'' <sup>iti</sup>gu<sub>4</sub> «Щит = Венера в месяце айяру».

Божество <sup>d</sup>''a-ri-tum'' упоминается в ''Šurpu'' VIII 28; см также [Tallqvist 1938, 256].
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==References== 
*[[References (Babylonian)|Kurtik's references]]

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