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- 11:20, 4 November 2024 IR.BI4.IL (hist | edit) [1,304 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>IR.BI4.IL is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== === Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim === [G. 88, 230], the name of Saturn and Libra. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Sources !Identifications |- |'''Lexic. texts.''' (1) Series Ḫg. B VI: <sup>mul</sup>gi.gi = mul kit-tu<sub>2</sub> u me-šar = <sup>d</sup>sag.uš <sup>d</sup>utu "Star gi.gi = Star of truth and justice = Saturn, Shamash" [MSL XI, 40:39], later parallel: <sup>mul</sup>gi.gi...")
- 11:19, 4 November 2024 INANNA (hist | edit) [6,303 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>d</sup>INANNA is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Var. reading: <sup>d</sup>INANA, <sup>d</sup>inana - the most commonly used designation, accepted in the electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary [ePSD], <sup>d</sup>INNANA, <sup>d</sup>INNIN, <sup>d</sup>NINNI, <sup>d</sup>MUŠ<sub>3</sub>; = Inanna; goddess of fertility, love and strife, the main female deity of the Sumerian pantheon, identified...") Tag: Visual edit
- 11:12, 4 November 2024 IN.DUB.AN.NA (hist | edit) [2,898 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>IN.DUB.AN.NA is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== === Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim === [G. 88, 230], the name of Saturn and Libra. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Sources !Identifications |- |'''Lexic. texts.''' (1) Series Ḫg. B VI: <sup>mul</sup>gi.gi = mul kit-tu<sub>2</sub> u me-šar = <sup>d</sup>sag.uš <sup>d</sup>utu "Star gi.gi = Star of truth and justice = Saturn, Shamash" [MSL XI, 40:39], later parallel: <sup>mul</sup>gi....")
- 11:01, 4 November 2024 IMIN.BI (hist | edit) [14,119 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>d</sup>IMIN.BI is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== === Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim === [G. 88, 230], the name of Saturn and Libra. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Sources !Identifications |- |'''Lexic. texts.''' (1) Series Ḫg. B VI: <sup>mul</sup>gi.gi = mul kit-tu<sub>2</sub> u me-šar = <sup>d</sup>sag.uš <sup>d</sup>utu "Star gi.gi = Star of truth and justice = Saturn, Shamash" [MSL XI, 40:39], later parallel: <sup>mul</sup>gi.gi = mu...")
- 10:58, 4 November 2024 IM.ŠU.RIN.NA (hist | edit) [9,493 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>IM.ŠU.RIN.NA is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Var. reading: <sup>mul</sup>IM.ŠU.NIGIN<sub>2</sub>.NA; = <sup>mul</sup>tinūru 'Furnace'; 1) constellation, 2) epithet of Venus [G. 198]. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Sources !Identifications |- |'''Lexical texts.''' (1) In early Sumerian lists: <sup>mul</sup> im.šu.rin.na.nu.mu.un.kuš.e.ne [MSL XI, 108:409]; <sup>mul</sup>im.šu.rin.na.nu.˹...") Tag: Visual edit
- 08:39, 4 November 2024 IM.ŠEŠ (hist | edit) [3,199 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>IM.ŠEŠ is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Var. readings: <sup>mul</sup>IM.SIS, <sup>mul</sup>IM.SES; = marratu "Rainbow" [AHw, 612; CAD M/1, 286]; constellation identified with s19SIM.MAḪ(?). {| class="wikitable" |+ !Sources !Identifications |- |'''MUL.APIN.''' Dates of heliacal risings: ina <sup>iti</sup>AB UD 15 KAM <sup>mul</sup>SIM.MAḪ <sup>mul</sup>ši-nu-nu-tu<sub>4</sub> <sup>m...") Tag: Visual edit
- 08:34, 4 November 2024 IM.GI (hist | edit) [1,210 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>ul</sup>IM.GI is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== = Ḫammā᾽u "Rebel." The name occurs only in the circular diagram in [TCL 6, 13 i; Rochberg-Halton 1987b, 224-226]. It appears to be an epithet of Mars, similar in meaning to other similar epithets, cf. [Reynolds 1998]; this is also evidenced by its position in the diagram. ==Historical Dictionaries== {| class="wikitable" |- ! scope="col" style="wi...") Tag: Visual edit
- 18:38, 3 November 2024 IM (hist | edit) [1,269 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>d</sup>IM is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== = <sup>d</sup>Adad; the thunder god Adad, identified in MUL.APIN with certain constellations and stars. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Sources !Identifications |- |'''MUL.APIN.''' (1) List of the stars of Anu (No. 14), see u11UGA. (2) List of the stars of Ea (No. 7), see h03<sup>d</sup>Ḫanīš. | |} ===Additional=== See als...") Tag: Visual edit
- 18:32, 3 November 2024 Ilum (hist | edit) [826 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Ilum''}} <sup>d</sup>''Ilum'' is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== The goddess of the underworld, identified with Mars and the constellation Snake (mulMUŠ) [G. 128; Wiggermann 1997, 34-35]. {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''"The Great Star List and Miscellenia".''' [<sup>d</sup>Ereš]-ki-gal = min(=<sup>d</sup>ṣal-bat-a-nu) "Ereshkigal = Mars" [Mesop. Astrol., Ap...")
- 18:06, 3 November 2024 IDIGNA (hist | edit) [6,192 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GI.GI is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== === Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim === [G. 88, 230], the name of Saturn and Libra. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Sources !Identifications |- |'''Lexic. texts.''' (1) Series Ḫg. B VI: <sup>mul</sup>gi.gi = mul kit-tu<sub>2</sub> u me-šar = <sup>d</sup>sag.uš <sup>d</sup>utu "Star gi.gi = Star of truth and justice = Saturn, Shamash" [MSL XI, 40:39], later parallel: <sup>mul</sup>gi.gi = mu...")
- 10:45, 3 November 2024 IBILA.É.MAḪ (hist | edit) [8,268 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GI.GI is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== === Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim === [G. 88, 230], the name of Saturn and Libra. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Sources !Identifications |- |'''Lexic. texts.''' (1) Series Ḫg. B VI: <sup>mul</sup>gi.gi = mul kit-tu<sub>2</sub> u me-šar = <sup>d</sup>sag.uš <sup>d</sup>utu "Star gi.gi = Star of truth and justice = Saturn, Shamash" [MSL XI, 40:39], later parallel: <sup>mul</sup>gi.gi = mu...")
- 10:38, 3 November 2024 I3-li2-ab-rat (hist | edit) [3,067 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:''I<sub>3</sub>-li<sub>2</sub>-ab-rat''}} <sup>mul / d</sup>''I3-li2-ab-rat'' is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== The goddess of the underworld, identified with Mars and the constellation Snake (mulMUŠ) [G. 128; Wiggermann 1997, 34-35]. {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''"The Great Star List and Miscellenia".''' [<sup>d</sup>Ereš]-ki-gal = min(=<sup>d</sup>ṣal-bat...")
- 10:11, 2 November 2024 LU2ḪUN.GA (hist | edit) [43,792 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul lú</sup>ḪUN.GA<sub>2</sub> is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== = agru "Hired man"; a constellation corresponding to modern Aries (Aries) [G. 244]. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Sources !Identifications |- |Lexical texts. (1) In the monolingual Sumerian lists of stars: mul lúḫun.ga2 [MSL XI, 108:410], mul lú[ḫun.ga2] [ibid., 133, col. viii 43], mul lúḫun.ga2 [ibid., 136, Forerunner 2, rev....") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "ḪUN.GA2 (b)"
- 06:22, 30 October 2024 Gula (Disambiguation) (hist | edit) [202 bytes] Sushoff (talk | contribs) (Created page with "here are the words that are spelled "Eru" Gula (Goddess) (Akkadian term) GU.LA (The Giant, The Great One) (Sumerian term)")
- 04:09, 30 October 2024 Hydra (hist | edit) [2,848 bytes] Sushoff (talk | contribs) (Created page with "One of the 88 IAU constellations. ==Etymology and History== The Greek constellation of the Water Snake is a derivative of the Babylonian constellation of the MUŠ-Dragon, a dog-headed creature with the body of a gigantic snake with front legs and wings. ... === Origin of Constellation === === Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation === == Greek Mythology == == Weblinks == * == References == * References (gen...") Tag: Disambiguation links
- 11:48, 27 October 2024 ḪUM.BA (hist | edit) [888 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>ḪUM.BA is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== [G. 188]; only in text 82.9-18.7292 (7 Enlil), where Humba corresponds with Enlil of Zabalam, see e10<sup>d</sup>En-lil<sub>2</sub>, see also [Tallqvist 1938, 322]. ==Historical Dictionaries== {| class="wikitable" |- ! scope="col" style="width: 60%;" |Kurtik (2022) ! scope="col" style="width: 40%;" |Gössmann (1950) |- |[G. 188]; то...") Tag: Visual edit
- 11:37, 27 October 2024 ḪUL (hist | edit) [4,283 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>ḪULis an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== Var. reading: <sup>d</sup>TUR.DIŠ; = kayyamānu(m) "Constant"; designation of Saturn in astronomical texts of the first millennium B.C. [G. 69]. The name apparently comes from the Akkadian word, ginâ, "constantly, normally" [AHw. [AHw, 289; CAD G, 78], close in meaning to kayyamānu, and apparently reflects the slow motion of Saturn relative to the stars in comparison to other planets. In astrologi...")
- 11:35, 27 October 2024 ḪU.NIM (hist | edit) [1,721 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>ḪU<sup>(?)</sup>.NIM is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== [G. 186]; only in the predication: [DIŠ <sup>mul</sup>MAN-ma ana <sup>mul</sup>]ḪU<sup>?</sup>.NIM TE ZAḪ<sub>3</sub> KUR [...] "[If the Strange Star (=Mars) approaches towards <sup>mul</sup>]ḪU.NIM: the country will fall [...]" [ACh Ištar, 24:23]. The attempt to identify <sup>mul</sup>ḪU.NIM with an unknown constellation f...") Tag: Visual edit
- 11:30, 27 October 2024 ḪI.LUGAL.MAŠ.LAḪ2.ḪA (hist | edit) [1,124 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>ḪI.LUGAL.MAŠ.LAḪ2.ḪA is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== [G. 190bis]; only found in the predictions from EAE: [DIŠ mu]lṢal-bat-a-nu ina ŠA3 mulḪI.LUGAL.MAŠ.LAḪ2.ḪA TU-ma... "[If] Mars enters the area mulḪI.LUGAL.MAŠ.LAḪ2.ḪA ..." [ACh Ištar, 34:16]. ==Historical Dictionaries== {| class="wikitable" |- ! scope="col" style="width: 60%;" |Kurtik (2022) ! scope="col" styl...") Tag: Visual edit
- 17:06, 22 October 2024 ḪE2.GAL2-a-a (hist | edit) [6,431 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:ḪE<sup>2</sup>.GAL<sup>2</sup>''-a-a''}} <sup>d</sup>''Ereš-ki-gal'' is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== The goddess of the underworld, identified with Mars and the constellation Snake (mulMUŠ) [G. 128; Wiggermann 1997, 34-35]. {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''"The Great Star List and Miscellenia".''' [<sup>d</sup>Ereš]-ki-gal = min(=<sup>d</sup>ṣal-bat-a-nu)...")
- 16:56, 22 October 2024 Ḫar-ri-ru (hist | edit) [2,463 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Ḫar-ri-ru''}} <sup>d</sup>''Ḫar-ri-ru'' is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== The goddess of the underworld, identified with Mars and the constellation Snake (mulMUŠ) [G. 128; Wiggermann 1997, 34-35]. {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''"The Great Star List and Miscellenia".''' [<sup>d</sup>Ereš]-ki-gal = min(=<sup>d</sup>ṣal-bat-a-nu) "Ereshkigal = Mars" [Meso...")
- 13:27, 22 October 2024 Ḫaniš (hist | edit) [15,385 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul / d</sup>''Ḫaniš'' is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Var. readings: <sup>d</sup>Ḫanīš (LUGAL, BAD) "Subjugation, bringing into submission(?)". [Gelb 1950, 196; Litke 1998, 145:272; Roberts 1972, 29]; a deity that paired with <sup>d</sup>Šullat(PA) (sh26) denoted a constellation within Centaurus (Centaurus) [G. 182; 240, I A]. {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''"Thr...") Tag: Visual edit
- 09:28, 22 October 2024 Suggested Stellar Transients (hist | edit) [31,790 bytes] Sushoff (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Transients that were suggested as Novae or Supernovae Category:transient") originally created as "AllTransients"
- 09:14, 21 October 2024 Dabbātu (hist | edit) [1,067 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Dabbātu''}} <sup>mul </sup>''Dabbātu'' is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Var. entries: <sup>d</sup>Ḫa-ba-ri; Akkadian parallel to <sup>mul</sup>EN.TE.NA.BAR.ḪUM/LUM/SIG<sub>4</sub>; the meaning of the Akkadian word is not quite clear, possible connections with ḫumṣīru "(big) mouse" with the meaning: "Mouse-like". [AHw, 355b; CAD Ḫ, 8; Landsberger 1934, 105f.]; a constellati...")
- 09:10, 21 October 2024 Ḫabaṣīrānu (hist | edit) [1,494 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Ḫabaṣīrānu''}} <sup>mul / d</sup>''Ḫabaṣīrānu'' is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== The goddess of the underworld, identified with Mars and the constellation Snake (mulMUŠ) [G. 128; Wiggermann 1997, 34-35]. {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''"The Great Star List and Miscellenia".''' [<sup>d</sup>Ereš]-ki-gal = min(=<sup>d</sup>ṣal-bat-a-nu) "Ereshkig...")
- 09:07, 21 October 2024 GUR4 (hist | edit) [914 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GUR<sub>4</sub> is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== Var. readings: KUR<sub>4</sub>, NIGIN<sub>2</sub>; = <sup>mul</sup>basālu "shining star"; in the astrological commentary on the EAE, Tablet 26 (27) [SpTU V, 262 r. 5], apparently an epithet of the Sun. ==Historical Dictionaries== {| class="wikitable" |- ! scope="col" style="width: 60%;" |Kurtik (2022, a13) ! scope="col" style="width: 40%;" |Gössmann (1950) |- |вар. чтения: KUR<s...") Tag: Visual edit
- 08:46, 21 October 2024 Gula (hist | edit) [14,778 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul d</sup>''Gula'' is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Gula — a healer-goddess, also the goddess of the constellation mulUZ3 the "Goat" in Lyra; her name was sometimes used as the name of a constellation [G. 82]. {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |Lexical texts. Urra XXII series: mul <d>gu-la = ni-ik-ka-ra-a[k] [Emar VI/4, 151:154]. "The Great Star List and Miscellenia." mulda...") Tag: Visual edit
- 14:00, 12 October 2024 Solitaire (hist | edit) [12,784 bytes] Sushoff (talk | contribs) (Created page with "THis French term was used for the now obsolete constellation Turdus Solitarius (= Solitaire = Noctua). ==Etymology and History== ==Mythology== ==IAU Working Group Star Names== The brightest star of historical "Turdus Solitarius" was Sigma Librae, mag. 3.2, named Brachium by WGSN. It was suggested in 2023 to try naming another of its stars, if we can identify them reliably. The French "Solitaire" is an obvious name to use. The biological relative from the neighboring...")
- 12:40, 10 October 2024 GU4.UD (hist | edit) [33,916 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GU<sub>4</sub>.UD is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== var. readings and signs: mul / dGU4.UTU, mul/dGUD.UD, mul/dGU3.UD; = šiḫṭu, Sum(erian). lit. "Bull of the Sun," Akk. "Jump"; a common name for Mercury, fixing the peculiarities of its motion relative to the Sun [G. 79]. The Greek lexicographer Hesychius gives the Babylonian name for Mercury: Σεχέζ. τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ ἀστ...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:26, 6 October 2024 GU4.ALIM (hist | edit) [18,072 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GIŠ.ERIN<sub>2</sub> is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== Variant reading: <sup>mul</sup>GIŠ.RIN<sub>2</sub>; = mulgišrinnu "Libra"; the constellation and sign of the zodiac Libra [G. 176]. See also e18ERIN2. ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''GU-text.''' (L) kal-lum <sup>mul</sup>giš.erin<sub>2</sub> igi-u<sub>2</sub> "Front cup of Libra", udu.idim.sag.uš ša...")
- 12:57, 4 October 2024 GU2.MUR (hist | edit) [871 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "alt=photographs, composition|thumb|One lunation observed in central Europe (Austria/ Germany). Credits: Susanne M HoffmannAn Mesopotamian term for the Moon, occasionally written A.KU, an epithet of Sinus, god of the moon [G. 13; Litke 118, III 16; Tallqvist 250]. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== An epithet of the Moon-god Nanna-Sin to be read <sup>d</sup>A.GI<sub>7</sub> = ''mâru r...") Tag: Visual edit
- 12:52, 4 October 2024 GU2.ḪAL (hist | edit) [1,430 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "GU2.ḪAL is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. __FORCETOC__ ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== An epithet of the Moon-god Nanna-Sin to be read <sup>d</sup>A.GI<sub>7</sub> = ''mâru rubû'', ‘the Noble Son,’ with reference to the fact that the Moon-god is according to standard tradition the most important (first-born) son of Enlil, the traditional Sumerian-Akkadian king of the gods. This Sumerian name for the Moon-god also echo...")
- 12:30, 4 October 2024 GU.LA (hist | edit) [29,341 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GU.LA is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== = rabû "Great, Giant"; a constellation in Aquarius (Aquarius) [G. 81], see also g25GU. {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''Lexic. texts.''' (1) Sumerian list from Nippur: <sup>mul</sup>gu.la [MSL XI, 107:389]. (2) Urra XXII series: <sup>mul</sup>gu.la = (pass) [MSL XI, 30:25a'], [<sup>mul</sup>gu.la] = ra-bu-u<sub>2</sub> [...") Tag: Visual edit
- 09:43, 1 October 2024 GU (hist | edit) [6,644 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>d</sup>''Ereš-ki-gal'' is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== The goddess of the underworld, identified with Mars and the constellation Snake (mulMUŠ) [G. 128; Wiggermann 1997, 34-35]. {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''"The Great Star List and Miscellenia".''' [<sup>d</sup>Ereš]-ki-gal = min(=<sup>d</sup>ṣal-bat-a-nu) "Ereshkigal = Mars" [Mesop. Astrol., App. B:110]. List of...")
- 09:41, 1 October 2024 Gizzānītu (hist | edit) [4,181 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Gizzānītu'' is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== "Enraged Goat"(?) [Reynolds 1999]; the name of a celestial region (apparently identified apparently with sections of the Goat-Fish constellation) in the Babylonian calendar text BM 55466+ (duplicate BM 35188+), in which an astral interpretation of the battle between Marduk and Tiamat with Kingu, described in the poem Enuma elish, is given for the month o...") Tag: Visual edit
- 10:28, 30 September 2024 GIŠ.KUN (hist | edit) [8,870 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GIŠ.KUN is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== = rapaštu "Thigh"(?)1; 1) = ziqpu XXIII, a group of stars in the constellation Leo (Leo), 2) was among the "normal stars" (= θ Leonis) [AD I, 18; AHw, 955a; CAD R, 154a; G. 163, IV 4]. ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- | I. Sources. List of ziqpu-stars. (1) AO 6478: a) 3 MA.NA ⅓ MA MIN(=šuqultu...") Tag: Visual edit
- 10:15, 30 September 2024 GIŠ.ERIN2 (hist | edit) [4,880 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>d</sup>EN.MUL is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== "Lord of the star/stars"(?); together with <sup>d</sup>NIN.MUL forms a pair with the ancestors of Enlil in the divine genealogies [G. 325; Lambert 1975, 51; Tallqvist 1938, 304]. ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''Lists of the gods.''' (1) AN: <sup>d</sup>Anum series (I 100-101): <sup>d</sup>En.mul / <sup>d</sup>Nin.mul [Litke 1...")
- 10:13, 30 September 2024 GIŠ.BAR (hist | edit) [6,500 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GIŠ.BAR is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== Var. <sup>d</sup>BIL.GI, <sup>d</sup>NE.GI, <sup>d</sup>GIBIL<sub>6</sub>; = dGirru; the star of the fire god Girra: 1) = Mars, 2) = Mercury, 3) = star or constellation (?) [G. 95; Tallqvist 1938, 313-315]. ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''Prayers to the Gods of the Night.''' In the list of astral gods: na-wa-ru-um <sup>d<...") Tag: Visual edit
- 13:03, 29 September 2024 GIR3 (hist | edit) [1,996 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:<sup>d</sup>AMA.ME.TIL}} alt=photograph|thumb|Pleiades and Venus in the morning sky. (by Susanne M Hoffmann) Mesopotamian term ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Variant reading: * <sup>d</sup>AMA.ME.BAD, lit. "the mother goddess, ME gathering"; * an epithet of the goddess Ishtar like the planet Venus [G. 18; Tallqvist 1938, 37, 261]. {| class="wikitable" | |- !Sources!!I...")
- 18:03, 28 September 2024 GIR2.TAB (hist | edit) [76,424 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>múl</sup>GIR<sub>2</sub> is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Short for <sup>mul</sup>GIR<sub>2</sub>.TAB "Scorpius"; in later astronomical and astrological texts, the zodiac sign Scorpius appears more often without the determinative [G. 91]. {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources !!Identifications |- |'''Mathematical Astronomy.''' See. [ACT 474b; LBAT, passim]; used in the lunar tablets dating back to th...")
- 18:03, 28 September 2024 GIR2.AN.NA (hist | edit) [1,737 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GIR<sub>2</sub>.AN.NA is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Lit. "Heavenly sword", an epithet of Scorpius [G. 93]. {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''Spells from the Scorpion.''' mul.mul gir<sub>2</sub>.an.na "the Star Cluster, the Heavenly Sword", <sup>mul</sup>gir<sub>2</sub>.a[n.na] "the Hea[venly] Sword". [Van Dijk 1971, Nr. 10, VAT 8379:21, 133; Svyat.-Tetv. 1998, 2...") Tag: Visual edit
- 17:55, 28 September 2024 GIR2 (hist | edit) [3,026 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>(mul)</sup>''Barbaru'', parallel to Sumerian constellation <sup>mul</sup>UR.BAR.RA. {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Barbaru''}} ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |Akkadian parallel to <sup>mul</sup>UR.BAR.RA "Wolf"; only in lexical texts [MSL XI, 31, Gap j:d; SpTU III, 114A v 34; Weidner 1959-60, 112, VAT 9430:28]; = star α Trianguli. See u18UR.BAR.RA. |Example |- | | |} ===Historic...")
- 17:53, 28 September 2024 GILIM.MA (hist | edit) [1,734 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GILIM.MA is an ancient Mesopotamain asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Var: <sup>mul</sup>GILIM; = gilimmu(?) "(Star) Destruction", according to another version, "A bunch of reeds"; epithet of Venus (?) [G. 84, 227]. {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''"Reports."''' DIŠ <sup>mul</sup>GILIM.MA ina ŠA<sub>3</sub> 30 GUB / AN.MI SU.BIR<sub>4</sub> GAR-an "If the (Star)-Destruction stands within t...") Tag: Visual edit
- 13:07, 24 September 2024 GIGIR (hist | edit) [8,482 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul giš</sup>GIGIR is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Variant readings: mulLAGAB´BAD; = narkabtu "Chariot"; a constellation that includes stars in the northern part of Taurus (Taurus) and southern part of Perseus (Perseus) [G. 89; BPO 2, 12; CAD N/1, 353ff.] {| class="wikitable" |- !Sources!!Identifications |- |'''Lexic. texts.''' (1) Sumerian monolingual lists of stars: mul gišgigir [MSL XI, 10...") Tag: Visual edit
- 17:40, 23 September 2024 GIG (hist | edit) [1,386 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GIG is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== The name of Mars; only in Ḫg. B VI: <sup>mul</sup>gig = kakkab(MUL) šib-ṭi <nowiki><u> mūtāni(NAM.BAD)</nowiki><sup>meš</sup> = MIN(=<sup>d</sup>ṣal-[bat-a-nu]) "Star of Disease = Star of Plague and Death = Mars". [MSL XI, 40:38; Reynolds 1998, 349, 353]; partially parallel to: [<sup>d</sup>ṣal-bat-a-nu] a-na mu-ta-ni qa-bi "[Mars], so it i...") Tag: Visual edit
- 17:36, 23 September 2024 GIBIL6 (hist | edit) [3,830 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GIBIL<sub>6</sub> is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Var. readings: <sup>d</sup>BIL.GI, <sup>d</sup>NE.GI; = <sup>d</sup>GIŠ.BAR; = <sup>d</sup>Girru, fire god of Girru/Hirra; 1) star or constellation, 2) epithet of Mars, see also g13GIŠ.BAR. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Sources !Identifications |- |'''"Prayers to the Gods of the Night."''' Old Babylonian prayer: a) Erm. 15642: na-wa-ru-um <...") Tag: Visual edit
- 17:29, 23 September 2024 GI6 (hist | edit) [6,518 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>GI<sub>6</sub> is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== ===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim=== Var. readings: <sup>mul</sup>GIG<sub>2</sub>, <sup>mul</sup>MI; = ṣalmu "dark star"; the name of Saturn and Mercury [G. 86].. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Sources !Identifications |- |'''Lexical texts.''' (1) Series Ḫg. B VI: <sup>mul</sup>gi<sub>6</sub> = AN<sup>ṣa-al-me</sup>DUL<sub>3</sub> = MIN(=<sup>d</sup>SAG.UŠ <sup>d</sup>UTU) "D...") Tag: Visual edit
- 10:44, 21 September 2024 GI.GI (hist | edit) [4,131 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>mul</sup>''Agru'' is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== === Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim === Akkadian parallel to <sup>mul</sup> <sup>lú</sup>ḪUN.GA<sub>2</sub> "Hired Man," modern Aries; in lexical and several other texts, see (Kurtik h12) <sup>lú</sup>ḪUN.GA<sub>2</sub>. == Historical Dictionaries == {| class="wikitable" |- ! scope="col" style="width: 60%;" | Kurtik (2022, a13) ! scope="col" style="width: 40%;" | Gössmann (195...")
- 10:34, 21 September 2024 GENNA (hist | edit) [5,809 bytes] DavidHilder (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<sup>múl d</sup>GENNA is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism. ==Dictionary== Var. reading: <sup>d</sup>TUR.DIŠ; = kayyamānu(m) "Constant"; designation of Saturn in astronomical texts of the first millennium B.C. [G. 69]. The name apparently comes from the Akkadian word, ginâ, "constantly, normally" [AHw. [AHw, 289; CAD G, 78], close in meaning to kayyamānu, and apparently reflects the slow motion of Saturn relative to the stars in comparison to other planets. In astro...") Tag: Visual edit
- 19:45, 19 September 2024 Historical Maps (hist | edit) [1,807 bytes] Sushoff (talk | contribs) (Created page) Tag: Visual edit
