TUR3

Authors: Gennady E. Kurtik, Euin Choung Kim, David Hilder, Wayne Horowitz, Susanne M Hoffmann, Jan Safford

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TUR₃ (𒀯𒉣𒇬) = tarbāşu, 'cattle-pen.' The sequence of signs MUL TUR₃ occurs in a broken context in a commentary to Enuma Anu Enlil relating to the 'horns' (crescents) of the Moon and Venus. Rather than an identification of a star-name, we would connect this to the term ^mulE₂.TUR₃ = ^mulTarbāṣu "cattle-pen,' with reference to the entire sky in two other obscure passages in Enuma Anu Enlil (Horowitz 2011: 255).

Concordance, Etymology, History

• 1) Previously understood as an epithet of Venus.
• 2) abbreviation of ^mulE₂.TUR₃^(?) (Kurtik e06).

Sources	Identifications
EAE. In astrological commentaries: DIŠ S[I.MEŠ]-šú TUR3 MI : [ina] SI.MEŠ TU[R3 . . . , mul MUL TUR3: dDil-bat [ . . . ; If its (the Moon's) horns are dark : [in] the horns, a cattle-p[en . . ., a star (of) the cattle-pen: Venus, "Zagon = Venus" [Verderame 2002, 166, Table V, Som. z:8'-9']. (most likely with reference to Venus in a halo of the Moon)

Historical Dictionaries

Kurtik (2022, t10)	Gössmann (1950)
аккадская параллель к mulTarbāṣu «Загон»; 1) эпитет Венеры; 2) сокращение от mulE2.TUR3(?), см. e06. I. Источники. ЕАЕ. В астрологическом комментарии: mulTUR3 : dDil-bat «Загон = Венера» [NSAM 2, 166, Table V, Сom. z:9'].	Example

References

• Kurtik's references