IGI.DU8.A.AN
tāmartu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-10-30
Primary meaning appearance
Literal translation appearance
Variants
IGI.DU8.A.AN tāmartu
IGI.DU8.A tāmartu
IGI.LAL tāmartu
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appearance term of visual perception, synodic phenomenon, astronomical 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

spectacle, sight, viewing common noun
See also

〈IGI〉 nanmurtu ‘first appearance’

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). 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. (2023). 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. (2023). 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. (2023) 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: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1262,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {IGI.{DU8}.{A}.{AN} ({Lemma} #1262)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1262/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1262/},
}