AḪUD

Authors: Gennady Kurtik, David Hilder, Susanne M Hoffmann, Jan Safford, Euin Choung Kim

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A conjunction of Mercury and Venus, aligned above the Moon, as seen from the Paranal Observatory. CC-BY ESO/Y. Beletsky

^dAḪUD is a Mesopotamian name for Mercury whose standard term is ^dUDU.IDIM.GU₄.UTU (𒀭𒇻𒁁𒄞𒌓).

Visibility & Appearance

Images of Mercury

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  Mercury seen at Dawn in Namibia (SMH 2001).
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  Mercury at Dawn in Central Europe (SMH 2924).
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  Mercury at Dawn in Central Europe with Label (SMH 2024).
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  Mercury at Dawn in Central Europe (SMH 2024).
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  Mercury and Venus in comparison to the young lunar crescent (Providence 2025).
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  Mercury and Venus at dusk (Providence 2025).

Concordance, Etymology, History

Philology:

A name for Mercury in the commentary K. 4387 = IIR 47 ii 22: GIB^a-hu-udGIB = ^dUDU.IDIM.GU₄.UTU.  The sign GIBxGIB glossed with the reading a-hu-ud apparently comes from the sense of GIB = parāku, which has the sense of to lie laterally across the sky in astronomical contexts (CAD P 154-155); hence Mercury which stands at the horizon at sunrise or sunset.  For the reading GIB see the gloss GIL^gi-ibpa-ra-ku (CAD P 153).

Sources

Identifications

Identity: UDU.IDIM.GU4.UD = dAḪUD (glossary: a-ḫu-ud) in the single text [II R, 47: 22c-d], see also [Gössmann 1950. 12; Tallqvist 1938, 258]. In the list of the gods K.4339 the sign AḪUD is read as dMermer, “storm, wind”; d me.er.me.erAḪUD = dU4.GIŠGAL.lu = min 'Mermer = Ninurta'. [CT 25, 13, K. 4339 rev. iii 31; Litke 1998, 44-45; Tallqvist 1938, 375]. Ninurta is a deity identified with Mercury and Saturn, (see Kurtik n43) dNIN.URTA.

Historical Dictionaries

Kurtik (2022, a16)	Gössmann (1950)
эпитет Меркурия.
I. Источники. Тождество: udu.idim.gu4.ud = dAḪUD (глосса: a-ḫu-ud) в единственном тексте [II R, 47: 22c–d], см. также [Gössmann 1950. 12; Tallqvist 1938, 258]. В списке богов K.4339 знак AḪUD читается как dMermer «буря, ветер»; d me.er.me.erAḪUD = dU4.GIŠGAL.lu = min «Мермери = Нинурта» [CT 25, 13, K. 4339 rev. iii 31; Litke 1998,  44–45; Tallqvist 1938, 375]. Нинурта — божество, отождествлявшееся с Меркурием и Сатурном, см. n43 dNIN.URTA.	Example

References

• Kurtik's references