agālu I

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Meanings:
riding donkey
de:German: Deutsch Reitesel
fr:French: Français âne de selle
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Domain: Animals; domesticated animals
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PaRāSinfinitive
Logogram: anše LA.GU , DÚSU
Etymology: Inherited (?) Cf. SED 2, 44f. according to which the word is not directly related to PS *ʿigl “calf”. A PS root *ʾVgVl remains hypothetical for now.
1 Lexical

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) dúsu inimdu₁₀-sa₇ inim-ma = a-ga-al a-wa-a-⸢TUM⸣ Fs. Wilcke, 142: 18 “riding donkey of words”. List of insults. new

31. In general

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ANŠE.LA.G[U ḫ]i.a-ia arkab {ma} allikma ARM 33, 112: 15 ARCHIBAB “I mounted my riding donkeys and went”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 1 anšea-ga-li adī mê urammakūniššu imtūt FM 6, 52: 7 ARCHIBAB “my riding donkey died while they were bathing it in water”. Cf. also ib. 5, 13, 19. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) sinništam ina ANŠE.LA.GU ušarkibūma FM 9, 71: 28 ARCHIBAB “they made the woman mount a riding donkey”. new

32. In literature

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ḫiṣen kišad mū[r ag]āli ana patê pak-kar-ta TMH 13, 82: 45 “hug the neck of a [do]nkey foa[l] to open the headcollar”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) LA.GA : ANŠE : LA.GA : lā napṭu[r]u CunMon. 49/2, 31: 8 “LA.GA (means) donkey : LA.GA (means also) not to become released”. Commentary Sakikkû I 22. Probably a pseudo-logogr. reading referring to anšeLA.GU (= agālu I) and the lex. equation NU.GÁ with paṭāru; cf. Wee 2019, 51. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) gišGAG.SI.[LÁ : gišGAG šuku]rri : SI : a-gal-lum : L[Á :] rakāsu CunMon. 49/2, 31: 27 “(the logogram for) ‘carria[ge’ (consists of gišGAG (meaning) sp]it (or: peg), (and) SI (meaning) riding donkey, (and) L[Á] (meaning) to bind”. Commentary Sakikkû I 47. A logogram SI for agālu I is not yet known and might represent here mainly an argumentative device. new

03. As insult
See lex. section.
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