abattu II
DRAFT
Meanings:
(a type of wood) (?)
Distribution: LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
1Attestations
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) 1 ME a-⸢bat⸣-tu qu-ṭi-[i?] u ḫuṣābī ina muḫḫikunu dubsar 3, 71: 32 “you owe 100 abattu -woods, wood shavings(?) and woodchips”.
Discussion
Cf. CAD A/1, 40 s.v. abattu B (“limestone, lime”); AHw. 4 s.v. abattu. For the interpretation as an organic material rather than stones, s. Jursa, AfO Bh. 25 p. 123; YOS 24 p. 119. For refs. see TT/MPS in SAD 5 (forthc.)