BURRUM AN.NA

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


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mulBUR.RU.UM AN.NA (𒀯𒁓𒊒𒌝𒀭𒈾), "the Sparkling Night-Sky of Heaven". A pseudo-Sumerian term that occurs just the one time in The Great Star List as a feature of PA.BIL.SAG in Sagittarius.  As written this must be taken as a Sumerian rendering of an Akkadian burrumū šamê; burrumū being a poetic name for the night sky (see MCG[1] 226-227).  The original intent of the Sumerian may be understood as something like, ‘the sparkling night sky of heaven,’ perhaps originally referring to the background gleam of the night-sky in general or to the brightest clouds of the Milky Way in Sagittarius. This could also explain the near homonym previous entry mulUr-um AN.NA which too is a name for the bright feature in Sagitaarius.

Concordance, Etymology, History[2]

Variants

  • mulBurrum AN.NA
  • mulUr-um AN.NA (𒀯𒌨𒌝𒀭𒈾)
    • = min
    • (= me-šiḫ dpa.bil.sag), see also the previous entry in the Great Star List
    • "Celestial light"(?)
    • urrum = see CAD U/W 245
  • = "Sparkling sky"(?), lit. "The variegated (multicoloured) sky"; part of the constellation PA.BIL.SAG(?).

Sources and Identifications

BURRUM AN.NA

Identifications
"The Great Star List."

mulbur-ru-um an.na = min(= me-šiḫ dpa.bil.sag) "Sparkle of the sky = Sparkle of Pabilsag" [Mesop.Astrol.[3], App. B:144; Weidner 1959-60[4], 107].||Example

Ur-um AN.NA

"Great Star List and Miscellenia".
  • mulur-um an.na = min( = me-šiḫ dpa.bil.sag) "Celestial light = Brilliance of Pabilsag"(?) [Mesop.Astrol.[5], App. B:143; Weidner 1959-60[6], 107].

See (Kurtik p03) PA.BIL.SAG.

Historical Dictionaries

Kurtik (2022, b13) Gössmann (1950)

BURRUM AN.NA

= «Сверкание неба»(?), букв. «Пестрое (разноцветное) небо»; часть созвездия PA.BIL.SAG(?). Только в «Большом списке звезд»: mulbur-ru-um an.na = min(= me-šiḫ dpa.bil.sag) «Сверкание неба = Блеск Пабилсага» [Mesop.Astrol., App. B:144; Weidner 1959–60, 107]. Example
Kurtik (2022, u26) Gössmann (1950)

Ur-um AN.NA

«Небесный свет»(?); по-видимому, часть созвездия mulPA.BIL.SAG (p03).

I. Источники.

«Большой список звезд». mulur-um an.na = min(= me-šiḫ dpa.bil.sag) «Небесный свет = Блеск Пабилсага»(?) [Mesop.Astrol., App. B:143; Weidner 1959–60, 107].

Example

References

  1. Horowitz W. Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography. Winona Lake, 1998 (Mesopotamian Civilisation, 8).
  2. Planetarium Babylonicum 2.0, All Skies Encyclopaedia.
  3. Koch-Westenholz U. Mesopotamian  Astrology. Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press. 1995.
  4. Weidner  E.  Ein  astrologischer  Sammeltext  aus  der Sargonidenzeit // AfO. 1959-1960. Bd. 19. S. 105-113.
  5. Koch-Westenholz U. Mesopotamian  Astrology. Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press. 1995.
  6. Weidner  E.  Ein  astrologischer  Sammeltext  aus  der Sargonidenzeit // AfO. 1959-1960. Bd. 19. S. 105-113.