'''Girtab''' (𒄈𒋰) is a Sumerian/Akkadian word for scorpion, and an ancient Mesopotamian constellation corresponding to modern Scorpius.<ref name=allen1899/><ref name=ASE/>
It has been used as a name for several individual stars in Scorpius by different sources: * θ Scorpii (Sargas)<ref name=kaler/> * ι<sup>1</sup> Scorpii<ref name=rhoads1971/> * κ Scorpii<ref name=falkner2011/>
==See also== * Girtablilu
==References== <references>
<ref name=allen1899>{{cite book | first1=R. H. | last1=Allen | author-link=Richard Hinckley Allen | title=Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning | date=1899 | url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Texts/secondary/ALLSTA/Scorpio*.html | page=362-370}}</ref>
<ref name=kaler>{{citation | first1=James B. | last1=Kaler | work=Stars | publisher=University of Illinois |title=Girtab |url=http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/girtab.html}}</ref>
<ref name=rhoads1971>{{citation | first=Jack W. | last=Rhoads | title=Technical Memorandum 33-507-A Reduced Star Catalog Containing 537 Named Stars | publisher=Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720005197/downloads/19720005197.pdf | date=November 15, 1971 | postscript=. }}</ref>
<ref name=falkner2011>{{citation | first1=David E. | last1=Falkner | title=The Mythology of the Night Sky: An Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Ancient Greek and Roman Legends | series=Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy | publisher=Springer | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-4614-0136-0 | page=106 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tyj8UUE968wC&pg=PA106 }}</ref>
<ref name=ASE>{{cite web |title=GIR<sub>2</sub>.TAB, ''zuqaqīpu'' |url=https://ase.exopla.net/index.php/GIR2.TAB |website=All Skies Encyclopaedia |publisher=IAU Working Group on Star Names |access-date=1 November 2025}}</ref>
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Category:Scorpius