UDU.NITA2
UDU.NITA2
Authors: Wayne Horowitz, Gennady E. Kurtik, Euin Choung Kim, David Hilder, Susanne M Hoffmann
mulUDU.NITA2 (𒀯𒇻𒀴), The Ram, is the star at the head of the staff in mulgam3 = gamlu, 'The Crook,' (Auriga) as identified in Uranology Texts and the star-list VR 46: muludu.nita2 = sag.du mulgam3, 'The Ram' = the head of 'The Crook.' In VR 46 'The Ram' must be the very bright star (α Aurigae = Capella), making it one of a select single-stars in larger asterisms that has its own individual Sumerian-Akkadian name. This also seems to be case in Uranalogy Text E rev. 7'-8') which makes a explicit reference to one single (išten) star with reference to the head of a ram, although line 9 places multiple stars in the head of the crook in 'The Crook' asterism. This uncertainty cannot be resolved as the start of rev. 8'-9' are too damaged to allow for certain reading. It is also possible that two separate ideas have been merged here: the single-star referring to the very bright star Capella, and the reference to 2 or 3 stars comprising the 'The Ram' in 'The Crook' (Capella and neighboring dimmer star(s). For multiple ideas presented side-by-side in the Uranology group compare the view of lu2ḪUN.GA2 as alternately in human form but also sheep-form.
Concordance, Etymology, History[1]
"Star-Lamb" [Gössmann 1950[2] 142].
Sources and Identifications
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list of stars VR 46, 1:49: [[should be in the GSL category??]] VR 46 + duplicates - how to write this everywhere???
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| Uranology
Text E [MLC 1884 rev. 6-8, Beaulieu et al. 2018: 63]
translation:
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Historical Dictionaries
| Kurtik (2022, u10) | Gössmann (1950) |
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| «Звезда-Баран» [G. 142]. Только в списке звезд VR 46, 1:49: muludu.nita2 = sag.du mulgam3 «Звезда-Баран = голова Посоха» [HBA 52; Wee 2016, 162–3]; группа звезд в Возничем (Auriga), см. также g06GAM3. | Example |
References
- ↑ Planetarium Babylonicum 2.0, All Skies Encyclopaedia.
- ↑ Gössmann P.F. Planetarium Babylonicum, Rom, 1950 (A. Deimel. Šumerisches Lexikon 4/2).
- ↑ Weidner E. Handbuch der babylonischen Astronomie. Bd. I. Leipzig, 1915.
- ↑ Wee, J. (2016). Virtual Moons over Babylonia: The Calendar Text System, Its Micro-Zodiac of 13, and the Making of Medical Zodiology. The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World, Ed. J. M. Steele, 139–229.
