... Strassmeier and Epping, in their Astronomisches aus Babylon, say that there its stars formed the third of the twenty-eight ecliptic constellations, - Arku-sha-rishu-ku, literally the Back of the Head of Ku, - which had been established along that great circle milleniums before our era; and Lenormant quotes, as an individual title from cuneiform inscriptions, Dil-kar, the Proclaimer of Dawn, that Jensen reads As-kar, and others Dil-gan, the Messenger of Light.

George Smith inferred from the tablets that it might be the Star of the Flocks; while other Euphratean names have been Lu-lim, or Lu-nit, the Ram's Eye; and Si-mal or Si-mul, the Horn star, which came down even to late astrology as the Ram's Horn.

It also was Anuv, and had its constellation's titles I-ku and I-ku-u, - by abbreviation Ku, - the Prince, or the Leading One, the Ram that led the heavenly flock, some of íts titles at a different date being applied to Capella of Auriga.

Before the era when I-ku (the Leading One) was defined by the rise of Hamal, the Ram, there may have been an era when the star who led 'the heavenly flock' was Capella (α Aurigae), the Goat.

Brown associates it with Aloros, the first of the ten mythical kings of Akkad anterior to the Deluge, the duration of whose reigns proportionately coincided with the distances apart of the ten chief ecliptic stars beginning with Hamal, and he deduces from this kingly title the Assyrian Ailuv, and hence the Hebrew Ayil; the other stars corresponding to the other mythical kings being Alcyone, Aldebaran, Pollux, Regulus, Spica, Antares, Algenib, Deneb Algedi, and Scheat ...

The Sumerian Alulim somewhat resembles the Assyrian Ailuv, and I also imagine there is a resemblance between Hebrew Ayil and our name for the first month beyond spring equinox, April. In Camp 8 were exhibited four king lists and the first 'king' on these lists may have been Capella:

Sumerian W-B. 144
1 Alulim	28,800
2 Alagar	36,000
3 Enmenluanna	43,200
4 Eumengalanna	28,800
5 Divine Dumuzi	36,000
6 Ensibzianna	28,800
7 Enmenduranna	21,000
8 Ubardudu	18,600
9	-
10	-
Sum	241,200

Sumerian W-B. 62
1 Alulim	67,200
2 Alagar	72,000
3 Kidunnushakinkin	72,000
4 ... ?	21,600
5. Divine Dumuzi	28,800
6 Enmenluanna	21,600
7 Enzibzianna	36,000
8 Eumenduranna	72,000
9 Arad-gin	28,800*
10 Ziusudra	36,000
Sum	456,000

Berossos
1 Aloros	36,000
2 Alaparos	10,800
3 Amelon	46,800
4 Ammenon	43,200
5 Megalaros	64,800
6 Daonos	36,000
7 Euedoraches	64,800
8 Amempsinos	36,000
9 Opartes	28,800
10 Xisuthros	64,800
Sum	432,000

The Bible (King James' verison)
1 Adam	130
2 Seth	105
3 Enoch	90
4 Kenan	70
5 Mahalel	65
6 Jared	162
7 Enoch	65
8 Methuselah	187
9 Lamech	182
10 Noah: until Flood	600
Sum	1,656

* Campbell has 28,000 here, which, however, does not agree with the sum 456,000.

The key numbers for I-ku could possibly have been based on 24 (= ½ * 48 = ⅓ * 72):

288	*12 24**	672	*28 24**
360	*15 24**	130	*5 24 + 10**

Another possibility is e.g. 6 (= 48 / 8 = 72 / 12):

288	*6 48**	672	*6 112**
360	*6 60**	130	*6 21 + 4**

112 could here refer to 472 - 360.