bāmtu

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Meanings:
half; ribcage
de:German: Deutsch Hälfte; Brustkorb
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PāSt
Etymology: Inherited Note Ugar. bmt “back, rump, loin” and Hebr. bōmät “back,” see DUL 221; HALOT 136 (EDA 1, 355f.).
3 Lexical
Lexical Lists

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GIŠ.NI-e-ĝu₁₀ = ba-am-ti ṣe-ḫ[e-er-]tum , ⸢x⸣-sa-ad-ĝu₁₀ = ba-am-ti ra-b[i-tu]m CUSAS 12, 150: 12f. (Ugumu) DCCLT “my small, big paunch”. new

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [kiši₄] = ba-am-ti , [kiši₄]-⸢kiši₄⸣ gig = ba-am-ta-a-a BBVOT 3, 63: 25f. (Ugumu) DCCLT “my chest, my ribcage”. The second entry is in the dual; cf. ⸢kiši₄⸣-kiši₄ gig = muttātūʾa ib. 20 “my halves (of the head)”. new

Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) ba-mat : mišil CunMon. 49/2, 261: 6′. Commentary Sakikkû XVIII (unknown entry), but note the similar words used beside each other in Sakikkû XVII 10 (19 in Heeßel 2000). new

6Further Attestations

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šê šibši u šê ba-ma-[tim] Haradum 2, 11 fragm. b 5 ARCHIBAB “the barley of the šibšu- tax and the barley of the pasturage-agreements”. See also ib. 55 n. c. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ba-am-ti-šu ikūṣ ARM 26/2, 337 no. 434: 39 ARCHIBAB “he skinned his chest (on both sides)’”. Dual. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ba-ma-at riksim u ša ibaššû ma-ḫa-aṣ AbB 12, 54: 16 ARCHIBAB “divide (lit. hit) half of the package and what (else) is there”. I.e., divide into two halves, see van Soldt, ib. p. 45. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ba-ma-sú-nu lū wašbū ba-ma-sú-nu [l]illikū AbB 13, 104: 5 ARCHIBAB “let half of them stay, half of them go”. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina ⸢ba⸣-am-ti-ka [(...)] ina [b]a-ma-at īnīka? AML, 112: 21f. SEAL “in your middle, in the middle of your eyes”. (fragmentary snake incantation). new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) dadānūšu ikkalūšu ba-mat-s[u ...] Sakikkû XXVI 38′ “his neck tendons hurt him, hi[s] ribcage [...]”. Corresponds to 51′f. in Heeßel 2000. new

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