AḪUD

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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.

Visibility & Appearance

Mercury is a planet of our solar system and observable with the naked eye. It is bright, but only visible in twilight, close to the Sun, and therefore difficult to be seen.

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)

Dictionary

Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim

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).

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Identifications

Identity: UDU.IDIM.GU4.UD = dAḪUD (glossary: a-ḫu-ud) in the single text [II R, 47: 22c-d], see also [G. 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, (Kurtik see 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 [G. 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