tāmartu

IGI.DU₈.A.AN
Akkadian · noun
variants IGI.DU₈.A : tāmartu , IGI.LAL : tāmartu
Edited by: Marvin Schreiber
Last edited: 2026-08-26
Meanings
Literal translation
appearance
Categories
synodic phenomenon
visual perception
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. appearance

1.a appearance synodic phenomenon

ina IGI.DU8.A.AN ša2 d.GU4.UD ina 3 u4-me ŠUR-nun

‘At the appearance of Mercury it will rain for 13 days.’

— AO 6449 (TCL VI 19 = TU 19) obv. 7

Genre: astrological weather prediction Provenance: Uruk Date: 13 August 226 BCE (Seleucid Era year 84, 12 V)

Hunger, H. 1976. Astrologische Wettervorhersagen. Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie 66. 247

2. spectacle, sight, viewing

2.a spectacle, sight, viewing visual perception
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2026). IGI.DU₈.A.AN (Lemma #1262). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1262/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2026). IGI.DU₈.A.AN (Lemma #1262). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1262/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2026). IGI.DU₈.A.AN (Lemma #1262). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1262/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2026) IGI.DU₈.A.AN (Lemma #1262), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1262/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1262,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2026},
	title = {IGI.{DU}₈.{A}.{AN} ({Lemma} #1262)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1262/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1262/},
}