Marduk

The Statue of Marduk depicted on a cylinder seal of the 9th century BC Babylonian king Marduk-zakir-shumi I. Detailed info, from Schaudig (2008), p. 559:

^dMarduk (𒀭𒈠𒊒𒁺𒊌) is the supreme deity of the city of Babylon, identified for the most part with Jupiter or Mercury; for a syllabic entry in lexical texts, but sometimes other planets and asterisms. His name is most often written with Sumerograms ^dAMAR.UTU. For the astronomical information concerning ^dMarduk = ^dAMAR.UTU = Neberu (as Marduk's Star), with the list of the names of Marduk's asterism for each month of the year also given in this entry.

XVIX. K. 3384 (Reiner-Pigree, BPO 3, 1998, 262-63 Group G) + K. 5990 (IIIR 43, 2 = ACh Ištar VIII

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Venus -Names; see also BM 45697 (81-7-6, 102) (LBAT 1564), BM 37391, and maybe BM 32314.

Text has MA sign form of TIM and NA.

Marduk-Names

measurements: 72 × 120.5 × 21 mm

obv. 1 [M]U AD.ḪAL d[AMAR.UTU]

2 [DIŠ ina ITU].BÁR dŠUL.PA.È dAMAR.[UTU]

3 [DIŠ ina I]TU.GUD dUD.AL.TAR dAMAR.U[TU]

4 [DIŠ ina IT]U.SIG4 dAŠ.GÁN KÁ.DINGIR.MEŠ dAMAR.UT[U]

5 DIŠ ina ITU.ŠU dda-pi-nu dAMAR. UT[U]

6 DIŠ ina ITU.NE dma-ak-ru-ú dAMAR.UTU

7 DIŠ ina ITU.KIN dSAG.ME.GAR dAMAR.UTU

8 DIŠ ina ITU.DUL dni-bi-ru dAMAR. UT[U]]214

9 [DIŠ i]na ITU.APIN drap-pu dAMAR. UT[U]]

10 [DIŠ ina I]TU.GÁN UL.GÀM dAMAR. UT[U]

11 [DIŠ ina I]TU.AB UL.LUGAL dAMAR. UT[U]

12 [DIŠ ina IT]U.ZÍZ UL.GAL dAMAR. UT[U]

13 [DIŠ ina IT]U.ŠE UL.KU6 dé-a dAMAR.UTU

Contents

Here we need an edition of Marduk\s star for each month - see NA3

Concordance, Etymology, History

City god of Babylon, identified with Enki’s son Assalluḫi, became head of the Babylonian pantheon towards the end of the 2nd mill. BCE. ^dAMAR.UTU (EN 33r).

Historical Dictionaries

Kurtik (2022, m11)	Gössmann (1950)
= mul dAMAR.UTU; Мардук — верховное божество города Вавилон, отождествляемое с Юпитером или Меркурием; силлабическая запись в лексических текстах см. a28dAMAR.UTU.	Example

References

• Kurtik's references