gamartu

TIL-tu₄
Akkadian · noun
variant TIL-ti₃ : gamartu
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2024-06-24
Meanings
Literal translation
totality
Categories
astronomical event
Related Lemmata 1 ›

1. totality (of an eclipse)

1.a totality (of an eclipse) astronomical event

iti.APIN GE6 13 AN.GE6 30 | TIL-ti3 ina MUL2.MUL2 GAR-an

‘Month VIII, night of the 13th, a lunar eclipse. | Totality occurred in Taurus’

— BM 33382 (BH 4) rev. 3-4

Genre: horoscope Provenance: Babylon Date: 3rd century BCE (date of birth in horoscope: S.E. 24 V.19 = -287 Sept. 1)

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88. 61

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). TIL-tu₄ (Lemma #1130). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1130/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). TIL-tu₄ (Lemma #1130). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1130/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). TIL-tu₄ (Lemma #1130). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1130/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) TIL-tu₄ (Lemma #1130), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1130/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1130,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {TIL-tu₄ ({Lemma} #1130)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1130/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1130/},
}