celestial-body

Ursa Minor

Cosmos

The Little Bear holding the North Star tip. Not Ursa Major, and not north-star itself.

Also known as Little Bear · Little Dipper

Mesopotamian tradition

  • Ursa Minor appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

    MUL.APIN names the lesser northern wagon/bear neighbors among circumpolar figures. A named lesser-bear figure in that compendium, not ursa-major as the great wagon already filed and not a bear-being dump.

    from Hermann Hunger and David Pingree · MUL.APIN, 1989 (this edition); tablets earlier

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • MUL.APIN · Hermann Hunger and David Pingree

    Hermann Hunger and David Pingree, MUL.APIN.