a-kam₂ / a
akāmu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-05-27
Primary meaning mist
Literal translation mist
Variants
a-kam₂ akāmu
a akāmu
a-ka-am akāmu
Edited by
mist meteorological phenomenon

⸢GE₆⸣ 19 a-kam₂ AN DIB

‘Night of the 19th, mist crossed the sky.’

— BM 36729 (ADRT I No. -343) rev. 15'

Genre: astronomical diary
Provenance: Babylon
Date: -343 (Artaxerxes III year 15)

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. 156

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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). a-kam₂ / a (Lemma #1732). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1732/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2024). a-kam₂ / a (Lemma #1732). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1732/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2024). a-kam₂ / a (Lemma #1732). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1732/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2024) a-kam₂ / a (Lemma #1732), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1732/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1732,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2024},
	title = {a-kam₂ / a ({Lemma} #1732)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1732/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1732/},
}