USAN2.PA.SIKIL

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USAN2.PA.SIKIL


dUSAN2.PA.SIKIL (𒀭𒄝𒉺𒂖) is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism.

Concordance, Etymology, History

Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim

Epithet of Venus as the evening star(?); in the AN: dAnum series (IV 174): dusan2.pa.sikil = d8-tar2 mul.<meš> "Usanpasikil = Goddess of the stars" [CT[1] 25, 31, K.2109+ rev. ii 10; Litke 1998[2], 161; Tallqvist 1938[3], 481].

Historical Dictionaries

Kurtik (2022, u27) Gössmann (1950)
эпитет Венеры как вечерней звезды(?); в серии AN:dAnum (IV 174): dusan2.pa.sikil = d8-tar2 mul.<meš> «Усанпасикиль = Богиня звезд» [CT 25, 31, K.2109+ rev. ii 10; Litke 1998, 161; Tallqvist 1938, 481]. Example

References

  1. Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum.
  2. Litke R.L. A Reconstruction of the Assyro-Babylonian God-Lists, AN:dA-nu-um and AN:Anu ša2 amēli. New Haven, 1998 (Texts from the Babylonian Collection, Vol. 3).
  3. Tallqvist K. Akkadische Götterepitheta. Helsingforsiae, 1938.