# Girtab

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'''Girtab''' (𒄈𒋰) is a [Sumerian](/source/Sumerian_language)/[Akkadian](/source/Akkadian_language) word for [scorpion](/source/scorpion), and an ancient Mesopotamian constellation corresponding to modern [Scorpius](/source/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](/source/Theta_Scorpii) (Sargas)<ref name=kaler/>
* [ι<sup>1</sup> Scorpii](/source/Iota1_Scorpii)<ref name=rhoads1971/>
* [κ Scorpii](/source/Kappa_Scorpii)<ref name=falkner2011/>

==See also==
* [Girtablilu](/source/Girtablilu)

==References==
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<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](/source/IAU_Working_Group_on_Star_Names) |access-date=1 November 2025}}</ref>

</references>

{{SIA|astronomical objects}}

Category:Scorpius

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