ḪU.NIM

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mulḪU(?).NIM (𒀯𒄷𒉏) is an anicent Mesopotamian asterism.

Concordance, Etymology, History

Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim

[Gössmann[1] 186]; only in the predication:

  • [DIŠ mulMAN-ma ana mul]ḪU?.NIM TE ZAḪ3 KUR [...]
  • "[If the Strange Star (=Mars) approaches towards mul]ḪU.NIM: the country will fall [...]" [ACh Ištar[2], 24:23].

The reading of ACh Ištar, 24:23 (K8000 rev. 23) can now be amended to . . . mu]l / x dA-nim TE . . . (see the photo CDLI P397428).

The attempt to identify mulḪU.NIM with an unknown constellation from the zodiacal belt "between Sagittarius and Scorpius under the Ophiuchus" see. [Maneveau 1994[3]]. Could it be that mulḪU.NIM was a distortion of mul <d>A-nim, see (Kurtik a41) ANUM.

Historical Dictionaries

Kurtik (2022) Gössmann (1950)
[G. 186]; только в предсказании: [DIŠ mulMAN-ma ana mul]ḪU?.NIM TE ZAḪ3 KUR […] «[Если Странная звезда (=Марс) к mul]ḪU.NIM приблизилась: падение страны […]» [ACh Ištar, 24:23]. Попытка отождествить mulḪU.NIM с неизвестным созвездием из зодиакального пояса «между Стрельцом и Скорпионом под Змееносцем» см. [Maneveau 1994]. Не может ли быть mulḪU.NIM искажением mul <d>A-nim (см. a41)? Example

References

  1. Gössmann P.F. Planetarium Babylonicum, Rom, 1950 (A. Deimel. Šumerisches Lexikon 4/2).
  2. Ch. Virolleaud, L'astrologie chaldéenne S(in); Shamasz; Isht(ar); Adad; S/Supp. = Supplément; SS / 2.Supp. = Second Supplément (Paris 1905 - 1912)
  3. Maneveau B. À propos de mul HU.NIM // NABU. 1994, № 2 (June). P. 25 (No. 24).