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Ursa Major

The Great Bear / Big Dipper figure of northern skies. Not Ursa Minor, and not a bear-being dump.

Also known as Great Bear · Big Dipper · Plough

Mesopotamian tradition

Ursa Major appears in Mesopotamian tradition.
MUL.APIN names the Wagon / Great Bear among northern constellations. A named great-bear figure in that compendium, not ursa-minor and not a bear-being dump.
from Hermann Hunger and David Pingree · MUL.APIN, 1989 (this edition); tablets earlier
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MUL.APIN · Hermann Hunger and David Pingree
Hermann Hunger and David Pingree, MUL.APIN.