Tūʼamū

Authors: Gennady E. Kurtik, Euin Choung Kim, David Hilder, Wayne Horowitz, Susanne M Hoffmann

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^{mul / d}Tūʼamū (𒀯𒌅𒄴𒌑𒈬) is an Akkadian term for twins, and hence the various 'Twin' constellations of the Mesopotamian starry skies. The Akkadian word is cognate to the word for twins in Hebrew, Syriac, and other languages.

Concordance, Etymology, History

Akkadian parallel to ^mulMAŠ.TAB.BA "Gemini" in lexical and a number of other texts,

• see (Kurtik m16) MAŠ.TAB.BA,
• (Kurtik m17) MAŠ.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL.
• maybe some of the other entries such as mash.mash etc.??

Historical Dictionaries

Kurtik (2022, t07)	Gössmann (1950)
аккадская параллель к mulMAŠ.TAB.BA «Близнецы» в лексических и ряде других текстов, см. m16MAŠ.TAB.BA, m17MAŠ.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL.	Example

References

• Kurtik's references