Kakkab Aribu

Raven constellation

Kakkab Aribu (also Kakkab- ^d Adad ; Sumerian UGA ; Babylonian ^kakkab aribu, raven star ) was on the one hand the Mesopotamian name of the constellation raven and on the other hand the term for a comet .

The constellation Kakkab Aribu could be identified from information in the first cuneiform tablet of the MUL.APIN series and from the Ziqpu star list. In the list of stars in Astrolabe B , Kakkab Aribu had its morning rise in the month of Ululu ( August / September ), for example in the year 2100 BC. Chr. On Aug. 30 . By the eighth century BC The precession had postponed the early rise to September 17th .

The month of Ululu began on August 2 at the earliest if the leap month Ululu II was declared; otherwise on August 12th at the earliest and September 14th at the latest . In the MUL.APIN tablets, Kakkab Aribu is dated as "UGA.MUŠ.EN" on the 10th Ululu. Kakkab Aribu had the nickname: "Kakkab- ^d Adad / Iškur " ( raven star of the weather god Adad / Iškur ).

literature

• Ernst Friedrich Weidner : Kakkab- ^D Adad In: Dietz-Otto Edzard : Reallexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology , Vol. 1 . de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-1100-4451-X , p. 26.