ālu I
5Attestations
OA-LitOA-Lit: Old Assyrian literary texts a-le-šu-nu OA Sarg.: 10 SEAL “their cities”. cf. ib. l. 70: a-lá-né “70 cities”.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) a-la-ni-šú rapšūtim … ina kakkija dannim urruḫiš aṣbatma BagM 34, 142 vii 5 “I took his many towns very quickly”. new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana GN a-al rebītišu rabîš asniqma BagM 34, 144 viii 3 “I came very close(?) to GN, its main city”. new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts a-li nakirī MesCiv. 7, 13: 39 SEAL “the cities of the enemies”. pl. stat. cstr. without -ān-ending.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) kī URU nakiri ušqammimmū URU-MU (∥ a-⸢li ⸣; URU) Ludlul I 102 eBL “as (if it was) a city of a foe, they silenced my city (towards me)”. The previous lines concerning the fields and canal(s) of the speaker might indicate that ālu here does not refer to a city but the estate (and its accompanying dependants and duties); cf. for this meaning CAD A/1, 386f. ālu 3 .