akukūtu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-10
Primary meaning Aurora Borealis
Variants
a-ku-ku-tu4 akukūtu
a-ku6-ku6-tu4 akukūtu
ḫa-ku6-ku6-tu4 akukūtu
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Aurora Borealis meteorological phenomenon

GE₆ 29 a-ku₆-ku₆-<<ku₆>>-tu₄ ina ŠU₂ KUR 2 ⸢DANNA⸣ [...]

‘Night of the 29th, red glow flared up in the west; 2 bēru [...]’

— VAT 4956 (ADRT I No. -567) rev. 10'

Genre: astronomical diary
Provenance: ?
Date: 568 BC

Sachs, A. J., Hunger, H. 1988. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. I: Diaries from 652 B.C. to 262 B.C. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

flame common noun

poetic synonym for fire

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). akukūtu (Lemma #1709). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1709/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). akukūtu (Lemma #1709). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1709/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). akukūtu (Lemma #1709). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1709/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) akukūtu (Lemma #1709), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1709/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1709,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {akukūtu ({Lemma} #1709)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1709/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1709/},
}