Akkadian Addenda · Signs

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door

NameIG
Reads[ig/ik/iq]
Meansthe door
Taught in10 · The River decides

Where it comes from

The door — the lists state it plainly, and the sign’s career agrees: doors and door-leaves travel through it in the account texts. Akkadian takes the sound in all three colors, ig, ik, iq.

How to remember it

A door decides: in or out. In law 2 the door-sign opens the verdict itself — iktašassu, “the River has overwhelmed him” — the moment the case swings shut.

In the wild

Codex Hammurapi (composite text), law 2. urn:nabu:cdli:p464358:a:321 · license: attribution.

Akkadian reading taught in 103’s chapter 10.