Leo and Virgo above the MUŠ-Dragon, two claytablet drawings from the Seleucid era (roughly 2nd century BCE), CC BY SMH based upon the drawings by E. Weidner (1967) and Thureau-Dangin (1922).

^(d)Niraḫ is an ancient Mesopotamian asterism.

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Krebernik (2023)

The snake god. The reading of the star name is confirmed by SpTU III nr. 114 iv 111 (Hh XII): MUL ^dMUŠ = Ni-ra-ḫu. MUL ^dMUŠ (AN 13l).

Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim

A serpentine deity identified with ^{mul d}muš in a late copy of Urra XXII; see (Kurtik m43) ^dMUŠ.

Historical Dictionaries

References

• Kurtik's references