ḫamāṭu

TAB

Akkadian · verb

variant : ḫamāṭu

Edited by: Alessia Pilloni
Last edited: 2024-06-24

Meanings

1. to be early

Literal translation

to be fast

1. to be early

1.a to be early motion

DIŠ 30 iḫ-mu-ṭam-ma 20 uš-tap-pa-a x […]

‘If the Moon has come too soon and the sun (still) shines [...]’

— K.2068+K.2251 41

Genre: celestial divination: sîn ina tamartīšu Provenance: Nineveh Date: 7th century BCE

Koch, U. S. 1999. The Astrological Commentary Šumma Sîn ina tāmārtīšu Tablet 1. In R. Gyselen & A. Caiozzo (Hrsg.), La science des cieux. Sages, mages, astrologues (S. 149–165). Groupe pour l’Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient. 156

DIŠ 30 TAB-ma ba-ra-ri it-ta-ʾ-dar AN.GI₆ LUGAL URI.ki

‘If the Moon is early and it darkens at the time of the evening watch the eclipse (affects) the king of akkad’

— K 778 1-2

Genre: celestial divination: enūma anu enlil Provenance: Nineveh Date: Neo-Assyrian

Rochberg-Halton, F. (1988). Aspects of Babylonian Celestial Divination: The Lunar Eclipse Tablets of Enūma Anu Enlil. Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Söhne Gesellschaft. 80

Cite this entry

APA (7th)

Pilloni, A. (2024). TAB (Lemma #681). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/681/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Pilloni, A. (2024). TAB (Lemma #681). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/681/

MLA (9th)

Pilloni, A. (2024). TAB (Lemma #681). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/681/

Harvard

Pilloni, A. (2024) TAB (Lemma #681), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/681/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac681,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2024},
	title = {TAB ({Lemma} #681)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/681/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/681/},
}