baddu (?)
REVIEW
Variant: baṭṭu (?)
Meanings:
(a member of the military; reconnoiterer) (?)
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE)
Domain: Occupations; humans
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
1Attestations
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) inanna qāt bēlija arkat 1 ba-du-um ARM 33, 106: 25 ARCHIBAB “meanwhile, my lord’s reach is long (even for only(?)) 1 b .”
Discussion
Durand 1991 rejects (as already prev. Edzard 1964, 144) the mng. “diviner”, proposed by Driver 1967, 108 (see also WO 2, 19f.). He instead connects the word with hebr. bdd “alone” and translates “homme isolé” for ARM 2, 30. Heimpel 2003, 479: “reconnoiterer”. Cf. also Akk. buddudu (SB, NA). For FM 9, 100 no. 13 see maṭṭû.