Amurrum

Akkadian
๐’ˆฅ๐’Œ… (Amurrum)

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Amurrum m (from Old Akkadian on)

  1. (Old Akkadian, Old Babylonian) Amorite
  2. (geography) toponym for Syria and the West, the land of the Amorites
  3. (with determinative ๐’€ญ (d)) Amurru (god of the Amorites)
  4. (with determinative ๐’€ฏ (mul), Standard Babylonian) Perseus (the "west star")

Alternative forms
Cuneiform spellings
Logograms Phonetic
  • ๐’ˆฅ๐’Œ… (MAR.TU)
  • ๐’€ญ๐’ˆฅ๐’Œ… (dMAR.TU)
  • ๐’€ญ๐’†ณ๐’ƒฒ (dKUR.GAL)
  • ๐’€ฏ๐’ˆฅ๐’Œ… (mulMAR.TU)
  • ๐’€€๐’ˆฌ๐’Œจ๐’€ธ (a-mu-ur-rum)
  • ๐’€€๐’„ฏ๐’€ธ (a-mur-rum)
  • ๐’€€๐’ˆฌ๐’Œซ๐’Š’ (a-mu-urโ‚‚-ru)
  • ๐’€€๐’„ฏ๐’Š’ (a-mur-ru)

Derived terms
  • amurrรปm (โ€œAmoriteโ€)

References
  • Black, Jeremy; George, Andrew; Postgate, Nicholas (2000), โ€œamurru(m)โ€, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
  • Miller, Douglas B.; Shipp, R. Mark (2014) An Akkadian Handbook, 2nd edition, Eisenbrauns, page 87

Further reading

Amurru on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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